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njsg
therube: don't tell google, but it seems they don't treat IE6 that way yet (the "enable js" stuff)
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njsg
they deliver a different layout, though.
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tomman
well, one of my banks changed its webapp AGAIN, just because
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tomman
the good news: since they're stuck using Windows 7 on their branches, they're not relying on bleeding edge Chromeisms
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tomman
the bad: the app is of course trash, designed by someone deeply in love with cellphones and that has never ever used a desktop computer
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tomman
And of course the password policy for this bank is lulzy: it suggests you special characters for your password that get rejected nonetheless
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tomman
And since there are THREE different applications, resetting your password in one will LOCK IT next time you try logging in
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tomman
oh banks, how I hate thee~
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franstam
oh how did u know they're stuck on win7
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franstam
thats interesting find
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tomman
eh, I visit the branches unlike most mortals today
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tomman
a few banks are still running good ole' XP
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tomman
others are still at 7
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tomman
many did moved to 10, and I've yet to find one using 11
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tomman
the largest state bank here uses XP... plus IE6 and Acrobat Reader 5
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tomman
And that's not counting the ATMs
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franstam
so u can just peek over the counter or at their pcs? nice
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franstam
i would still happily use xp if i could, xp the best os... books were written on how to tweak it and the info wouldnt get outdated
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franstam
unlike now info gets outdated in months
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tomman
One of my banks at some point ran Windows XP in VMs under Windows 8 to run (C)1995 RESTRICTED MATERIALS OF IBM CORP internal apps
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tomman
spoilers: this specific bank upgraded to 10, to run the very same apps but this time without the VM
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tomman
and of course nearly every single bank uses a fancypants terminal emulator to talk to that IBM Big Mama at the central branch
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tomman
it's a weird hodgepodge of webapps, 16/32-bit Windows apps, and terminal stuff
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tomman
and sometimes they need to query 3 different internal apps just for a single operation, say, update your permanent record (which you have to do once a year according to the laws here)
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tomman
migrations are always fun... no
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franstam
lol this is why i aint guna work in a bank IT dept
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tomman
Actually one of my young college student fantasies was to work at a bank, doing the software for ATMs
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tomman
but then I learned banks here don't really hire IT people until their current ones retire/die, so...
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tomman
one of my professors at my college (where I got my IT degree) actually worked at the IT department of a bank
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nsITobin
there now I can start refactoring my wrapper module for the safemysql lib
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nsITobin
localhost database-specific SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
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nsITobin
yay
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nsITobin
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nsITobin
now I can actually write the account system
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nsITobin
and the panel