Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Why so dumb?

I had to talk to the customer service cell of Indian oil (Indane) today, being a perfect software engineer I searched all over Google to finally stumble at their web site. It is very good to see all the govt. agencies maintaining their websites. But the dumbest thing about the IOCL website is, it promptly throws this message when i point my Mozilla towards it.
"This site is best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer (Version 5.00 or above). Please install the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by your Internet Service Provider or from the free download provided at the Microsoft Corporation web site."

How dumb? I don't blame the IOCL for this, it is surely another software engineer who did this. But can't they code a simple HTML page? or is it too much to ask for?