[ale] Wachovia web banking seems to be fixed with Mozilla

[Geoffrey]

Jonathan Glass wrote:
> As hard as I yelled at them 2 months ago, it is about time they fixed 
> this.  They said they didn't support any browser on Linux.  I told them 
> their problem was poorly written JavaScript, and that they should work 
> on it.  I wonder how many other people complained?

I did, shortly after I opened my account with them after leaving 
Suntrust (who uses your ssn for your id and DID restrict your password 
(pin) to 4 numerics).

I've used Mozilla off and on and not had problems, although I did have a 
problem with I first tried to access some other sections of their site.

When I called them about the problem, they were good.  I noted I was 
using Linux, all they told me was that Mozilla and Netscape 6 were not 
yet supported, but they were working on it.

Suntrust has a similar problem by the way.  Their claim and I quote it 
from their website:

If you are using Netscape 6.x, Netscape has chosen to alter their 
communication standards resulting in this incompatibility. In the 
interim, we recommend you use one of the following browsers:...

What crap.  It's the same javascript issue.

> 
> Jonathan
> 
> At 03:47 PM 8/9/2002 -0400, Fulton Green wrote:
> 
>> And I believe the blue "Copyright" line that used to clobber the 
>> middle of
>> the "Account Details" page is now in its rightful spot. Cool! I just hope
>> First Union is using the same stuff, since whatever they're using is more
>> likely to be the adopted standard for the soon-to-be-unified bank 
>> accounts.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:42:32PM -0400, James Taylor wrote:
>> > Just to show how little it takes to get me excited, I wanted to let
>> > y'all know that when I checked my Wachovia account today, I clickede on
>> > the "Logout" button and it actually logged out.  This never worked
>> > before, and Wachovia suggested exiting the browser as a workaround
>> > (gag..).
>> >
>> > Feeling brave, I logged back in and tried the "Print this page" link.
>> > It worked too. Amazing....somebody actually fixed a compatibility
>> > problem with a non-IE browser.  Dang, I may have to stick with'em after
>> > all.
>>
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