April 4, 2007

Only Browser Geeks Need Apply...

The Alliance and Leicester Building Society's "3D Secure" secure internet shopping service has the following requirements:

What are the system requirements for 3D Secure?

3D Secure requires the use of Windows Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, Windows Netscape® 7.1 and 7.2, Windows AOL ® 9, Windows Firefox® 1.0 and Macintosh Safari®.

Wow. It's a pretty small and exclusive clientele who can run all of those at once. I guess you'd need a Mac (for Safari) running at least two copies of Parallels (one for each version of IE)...

Posted by gerv at April 4, 2007 9:42 AM
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The "Windows Firefox" was a nice touch too. I canīt imagine myself running Windows Netscape 7.1 AND 7.2 at the same machine at the same time. Or Windows Firefox AND Macintosh Safari.

Hooray to the virtualization!

Posted by: Cedric Graebin at April 4, 2007 11:14 AM

It's actually possible to run multiple versions of IE on the one VM (see http://www.quirksmode.org/browsers/multipleie.html), so that reduces the burden a little ;)

Posted by: Gavin Sharp at April 4, 2007 3:29 PM

To top it all off, the page loads fine then tells me it "can't operate without Javascript". At first glance this seems like a completely stupid requirement for a page of static content, but looking at the source, every href attribute calls a javascript function. What does it do? It goes to the URI passed as its parameter. Amazing.

Sites with developers this incompetent are the main reason why I refuse to do anything involving money online.

Posted by: ant at April 4, 2007 7:43 PM

Oops, and if you happen to upgrade to FF2 or IE7, that means you're out of luck huh? :)

Posted by: slxception at April 7, 2007 11:14 AM