[LINK] unclaimed monies

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Brd, Syl, iT and all

Thanks guys .. maybe i was a little scathing, but our government websites
checking 'compatiblilty' Doh! in stupid top-corner ascii, on a blank page 
for five minutes, did under-whelm me .. never seen a page like it before.

cheers
Stephen

> Fine in Safari for Mac - no delay, no compatibility problems.
> 
> Ugly as all get-out, but that's to be expected.
> 
> Too lazy to see what scripting they've hidden in the source code, but  
> if they can't spell compatibility properly, that's a fair indication  
> that their scripting guru can't script properly, either - or that  
> attention to detail is so poor that it won't work for some visitors  
> (clearly true).
> 
> iT
> 
> 
> On 20/01/2009, at 9:35 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> 
> > stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> >> Following an item on 7 tv news .. am trying to go to:
> >>
> >> http://www.sro.vic.gov.au
> >>
> >> which attempts to resolve to:
> >>
> >> http://www.sro.vic.gov.au/sro/SROWebSite.nsf/index1.htm
> >>
> >> but, utilizing bog-standard IE7 .. one gets 5 minutes of text:
> >>
> >> 'Checking web browser compatiblilty...'
> >>
> >> and whatever 'compatibLILTY'(?) means .. altogether, no site
> >> for many minutes, and, then their 'search for unclaimed money'
> >> function here:
> >>
> >> http://www.sro.vic.gov.au/sro/SROWebSite.nsf/ucm_searchIntro.htm
> >>
> >> doesn't want to work for me .. maybe they're just busy, but it's  
> >> not good.
> >>
> >> Anyone else experience this, or, is it my use of the very un-common  
> >> IE7
> >> browser?
> >
> > I tried it in Firefox 3.0.5 and everything works fine with little or  
> > no
> > delay. I didn't even see the 'Checking web browser compatiblilty...'
> > screen.
> >
> > With IE 7.0.6001.18000 (I'm running Vista) there was a 'Checking web
> > browser compatiblilty...' delay similar to the one you experienced but
> > not 5 Minutes. Then everything worked OK.
> >
> > -- 
> >
> > Regards
> > brd
> >
> > Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> > Canberra Australia
> > brd at iimetro.com.au
> >
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> >
> 
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Syl writes,

google tells me that for a search on "compatiblilty" we get:
  Results 1 - 10 of about 64,500,000 for compatiblilty

adding in the term "vic" reduces it to:
  Results 1 - 10 of about 422,000 for compatiblilty vic

and the first result is:
 State Revenue Office Victoria - Checking...
 The State Revenue Office Victoria has achieved a world first 
 for government in having its internal IT services ... 
 Checking web browser compatiblilty...
 www.sro.vic.gov.au/SRO/srowebsite.nsf/index.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar 
pages

How funny.

I clicked and was redirected very swiftly (FF3.0.5 on KDE4.0 in Suse 
11.1) to: www.sro.vic.gov.au/SRO/srowebsite.nsf/index1.htm

and I followed the links to the main search area:

 www.e-
business.sro.vic.gov.au/eBusiness/UnclaimedMoneys/faces/searchForm.jsp

It's easy enough to use, but there is a date field box search criterion 
that is described thus:

 "(Optional) Only search for records added since (dd/mm/yyyy):
  NOTE: Date entered must be within the last 90 days"

which seems kind of odd, seeing as the calendar date selection widget 
cycles back as far as you like (at least 1999 until I got bored). No 
matter, since a search using 7th January 1999 returned a message in red 
letters reminding me:

"Date entered must be within the last 90 days "

The search results do not included a date, so I am unclear if that means 
the database is only up to three months, rolling, or if it's only a 
filter limitation with results going back further if left blank.

I ignored this optional option and searched on "smith" and found a bunch 
of entries.  Name, full address, $ amount and entitlement type details 
are supplied.  Though, of the various random names and results I searched 
on, entitlement type is always described as "general." ..


Sylvano

 
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