[nylug-talk] Problems with Citibank website

[Steven Lembark]

> However, when I went to Citibank, I get redirected to Citicards, and
> after a few things flashing around, got a white screen.  I thought it
> might be because FreeBSD doesn't yet play well with Flash 9, but trying
> in Fedora gave me the same result.

This is usually an Opera issue: The nice folks at
Opera are standards fanatics; the banks use M$
development tools.

> It strikes me that this is really poor marketing on their part.  It
> apparently does work with Macs, but still, it seems they are alienating
> customers, and one would think that competition for credit card business
> is rather intense.
>
> On the other hand, I like their cash back thingie, so I'll probably
> continue to use them, but perhaps if more and more people complain,
> it will get through to someone.

They have bean-counters and project leads who look
at M$ tools as being cheaper. Net result is that
the tools are used to generate M$-compatable web
sites, Java, and even internal server code. The
code performs poorly, but they keep using M$ becuase
"its there."

My fix was to switch banks and inform them as to why.

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