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12 February 2010

Hall of Shame : Indian Website which need IE and close standard

1)  Income Tax DEpt website only accept Microsoft Excel format. They
must use Open Office format - ref
http://fosscomm.in/Letter_to_IncomeTax_Dept_By-Guru

2) ISRO Bhuvan Project (Indian Earth Observation Visualisation -
http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in ) - ask use to use Microsoft Windows with IE
and 3D capable graphics card.
we have written at letter on it - http://fosscomm.in/ISRO_Bhuvan

3) http://www.aicte-india.org/prmportal_enu/start.swe?SWECmd=Start&SWEHo=www.aicte-india.org
AICTE website for colleges to put in there information. But colleges
can never open these links.
-- We cannot see this page --
Site Requirements (as given in AICTE website):

Section 1:
   Desktop/PC Platform Requirements
       * Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 or above with Internet
Explorer 6.0 or above. Cumulative Security Update for Internet
Explorer 6 Service Pack 2 (KB867801) or above is a prerequisite.
   OR
       * Microsoft Vista with SP1 or above4 with Internet Explorer
7.0 and above

4)  http://www.courtnic.nic.in/ which gives disposed and pending case
status in various courts in India do not work in Firefox.  Although
the site is displayed in Firefox, the submit option does not work.  I
had sent a mail to NIC(clist@nic.in) some time back regarding this,
but did not get any response.


5)from - http://gnowgi.org/2009/10/02/usvisab/ - US Visa application
not possible if you use free software!
October 2, 2009
    I wanted to go to the international conference on semantic web to
be held in October 2009 near Washington.  So I try to apply for US
visa.  There seems to be no way for a person to apply for US visa
without using MS Internet Explorer.  Firefox/Mozilla based browsers
don’t work.  In protest to this unfair practice, I have written the
following open letter to the Ambassador of United States in India.

6)   http://fyjc.org.in is website for Mumbai Region
11th Standard Online Admissions - It is not avaiable in Firefox. It
say "Currently we are supporting Microsoft Internet explorer v6 or
newer only"

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