Clalit members: please contact Clalit and demand non_IE support!

[Stan Goodman]

At 16:28:03 on Monday Monday 08 March 2010, Arie Skliarouk 
<skliarie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today the clalit's login page was changed.
> Could it be the site now works from firefox?
>
> --
> Arie

I just tried to log in, and was greeted with an error message telling me 
that either my TZ or password is incorrect. Because I am not a 
psychiatrist dealing with disturbed minds, I cannot tell if fthat means 
they have cancelled my password or their logon procedure has determined 
that I am not friendly with Bill Gates.

I have been fighting with Maccabi for years, since the online facilirty 
was introduced. As I age, I become progressively more interested in being 
ab le to check lab results from the comfort of my home.

For a long time, the trained seal that responds to messages to Online told 
me simply that the management was aware that not all members had access 
to what was touted as a service for all, and that they didn't really 
care. Then, not long ago, one of my periodic queries got me the 
information that non-Redmond browsers could now be accomodated (GOOD 
NEWS!), and I was able to get lab results. After a few months, when I had 
some more tests, access was denied. Another email brought me the news 
that Internet Explorer was again the Golden Browser, and nothing else 
would do; the unbelievable reason I got was that it had been found that 
only Internet Explorer had been shown to be adequately secure. I am not 
making this up.

I then wrote to the management, expressing my opinion that the real reason 
was that the amateurs responsible for maintaining the website had learned 
in a Microsoft course how to code websites, and simply didn't know how to 
do this without Microsoft "enhancements", which was a very poor reason 
for trying to force sick members into using Windows. I added that many 
sites on the "Net somehow managed to remain sicure even without 
insisteing on Internet Explorer. Unsurprisingly, I did not receive a 
reply. 

If anyone has a potentially successful plan for forcing Maccabi toget off 
their duff and employ a competent web designer, I want to participate to 
the limit of my ability. My guess is that a good way to proceed might be 
to interest a lawyet in the matter, because it is clear that the 
orgainization is not behaving fairly with all its members, but has 
introduced an irrelevant criterion for use of the website. It should not 
be very difficult to find a lawyer with enough "Net-related vocabulary to 
make a case before the managelment, and even before a Magistrate's Court 
(בית משפט השלום).

>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 18:53, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As a workaround, have you tried using the following Greasemonkey
> >
> > userscript?
> >
> > > http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/51494
> >
> > No, and I won't. The more we bend over backwards to support these
> > non-IE sites, the less reason they have to fix them. There is a
> > problem and it needs a fix, not a workaround.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://what-is-what.com
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> >
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-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel