[Ham-Mac] ARRL Survey Results

[Chuck Counselman]

>Its also sort of silly to hold such a poll, because the web server knows
>what OS your browser says its running... If only someone is smart
>enough to pay attention.


When the LotW thing happened, I wrote to a couple of people at ARRL 
asking "What about us?"  One of them replied by citing the low 
percentage of MacOS users in the then-latest ARRL website poll 
results.  By his logic, we should do OK now.  :-)

I wrote back saying that the ARRL website poll was biased against Mac 
users 'cuz the website doesn't work correctly with some non-Microsoft 
browsers, so that those who do not worship Bill Gates tend not to 
visit the ARRL website.

In particular, the ARRL website did not work correctly with the 
Netscape browser that I was using, and which was MIT's officially 
supported browser.  The shame is, now I use MSIE/Mac, because so many 
websites no longer work correctly with non-Microsoft browsers.  But, 
whenever I need to do something official through an MIT web server 
(e.g., renew my parking pass), I must launch Netscape, because 
Netscape Navigator is the only Mac browser that MIT still supports.

Now that Netscape browser development has died, we Mac users at MIT 
may soon find ourselves orphaned.  :-(


-Chuck, W1HIS