This sort of thing really angers me and displays the fact that the web developers of the Parcelforce website will happily display total ineptitude at developing websites. To block off an entire operating system for no reason whatsoever, is simply astounding, and I can’t believe companies still employ such idiots.
Why should I not be allowed to send a parcel, just because I use Linux? There is no reason for it – especially as they support Mozilla Firefox! There is no difference between Windows Firefox and Linux Firefox, and no reason to stop me using Linux to send a parcel. Thankfully plug-ins like the User Agent Switcher exist, to circumvent such inept and naive programming.
Update: User Agent Switcher didn’t work. I used Firebug to enable the submit button though, which let me through happily…
June 16th, 2009 at 8:27 am
This is so true of a lot of websites. Browser detection is bad, but OS detection?!! Completely unnecessary.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Aye – Browser detection I can understand to a certain extent – for websites that use ActiveX, you would normally need Internet Explorer. I wonder if the Parcelforce site also blocks Mac OSX as well? It would be foolish to do so in my opinion…