arrogant webmasters

[ramtops]

if you try to look at certain pages on this site, using Mozilla on Mac OSX Panther, you will be greeted with www.vistaprint.co.uk/vp/ns/upgrade_ls.asp.

I was so incensed that I was moved to mail the webmaster thus:

"hey wait up!"?

my browser does *not* need an upgrade, thanks. My browser is Mozilla 1.5 running on Panther on a Mac. It's a damn site more up to date than any offering from Microsoft, and is also standards compliant.

if your site needs some of the "features" of IE (and I accept that some do), then say so properly, and don't give me twee faux USAnian.

I'm a professional, full time web developer, and I'd be ashamed to put such a page on any site of mine. I use an ActiveX control (which requires IE for Windows to run) for my clients to upload their content into our Content Management System, but I explain properly why they need it, without the patronising bollox to which I've just been subjected courtesy of your site.

I also note that your site rejects the very latest version of IE on Mac, so I *can't* upgrade in order to "work with all your cool features".

I only wanted the prices, but I'll look elsewhere - life is too short.

and, to cap it all, my mail returned to me several hours later, with the following message:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Unable to deliver message to the following recipients, because the message was forwarded more than the maximum allowed times. This could indicate a mail loop.

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