{"id":22,"date":"2002-08-23T21:55:37-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-24T05:55:37+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2002-08-23T21:55:37-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-24T05:55:37+00:00","slug":"idiocy-isnt-a-strong-enough-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/08\/23\/idiocy-isnt-a-strong-enough-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiocy isn&#8217;t a strong enough&nbsp;term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t find words to express how stupid this is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webstandards.org\/buzz\/archive\/2002_08.html#a000072\">Tim Bray<\/a> points out that the online banking sites (specifically the online stockbroker) run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cibc.com\/\"><acronym title=\"Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce\">CIBC<\/acronym><\/a> don&#8217;t work on his Macintosh with any available browser.  I&#8217;m not surprised; their basic banking service has had problems with Mozilla-based browsers for <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=97034\">more than a year<\/a>, and they&#8217;ve refused several times to communicate via secure (S\/MIME or PGP) e-mail.<\/p>\n\n<p>The official (non-)word from CIBC is:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>CIBC Online Banking is currently testing the new Netscape 6.2.X browser version.Please do not upgrade your browser at this time. We currently recommend Netscape 4.79.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I think a year is more than long enough to have waited; in the meantime they&#8217;ve added useless features like <q>e-mail money transfers<\/q> (which isn&#8217;t even particularly usable <em>or<\/em> well-integrated).  They&#8217;re about to lose one more customer.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t find words to express how stupid this is. Tim Bray points out that the online banking sites (specifically the online stockbroker) run by CIBC don&#8217;t work on his Macintosh with any available browser. I&#8217;m not surprised; their basic banking service has had problems with Mozilla-based browsers for more than a year, and they&#8217;ve&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}