[nylug-talk] Problems with Citibank website

[Scott Robbins]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:30:03AM -0400, Steven Lembark wrote:
> 
> > 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.


Oh, in opera, it's almost unreadable, even after turning off flash.
However, the problem occurs in firefox as well. (It might even occur in
MS firefox, I didn't bother checking it.)


> 
> > 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.
> >
> They have bean-counters and project leads who look
> at M$ tools as being cheaper. 

The > code performs poorly, but they keep using M$ becuase
> "its there."
> 
> My fix was to switch banks and inform them as to why.

I would have done that if it wasn't for this cash back thing
they offer, which is a nice feature.  


I don't think I mentioned this other solution on this list, and I know
at least one person reading the thread was interested in workarounds.  
There is a flash free, usable site at


https://www.accountonline.com/View?docId=Login&siteId=CB



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