Met Office UK - New Beta website

[daj]

I see the Met Office in the UK have announced their new beta website, and are looking for feedback

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/beta

[steve]

Doesn't seem to work in FF6

[daj]

I'm using FF6 !

[mcrossley]

Not working in Chrome either "loading widget...", IE9 is OK

[steve]

I'm using FF6 !

Hmm... 6.0.2?

I get this (even after several minutes):

Met Office Weather and climate change - Mozilla Firefox_2011-09-07_15-47-15.png

If I click on the 'weather' quick link I get:

Weather Home - Mozilla Firefox_2011-09-07_15-48-23.png

[daj]

Yip -- FF 6.02 on Windows 7. Also tried Chrome 13. Then tried it on a Mac with FF6 and chrome. All good. On Chrome I needed to click the Ctrl-R to reload the full page the first time

[steve]

On Chrome I needed to click the Ctrl-R to reload the full page the first time

Aha! I forced a refresh in FF6 and it's sprung into life!

[gemini06720]

Doesn't seem to work in FF6

Why would anyone still use Internet Explorer 6 ... or 7 for that matter? Those browsers are so old and so full of 'holes'...

And I do not need to hear that continuously repeated 'crap' from too many IT managers about the difficulties in updating the browsers on their networks ... One word, 'laziness' ... from a recently published ZDNet/TechRepublic survey of small-to-large businesses!

I have adopted the Google policy: To only support the present release of a browser and one previous release...

Thus:

• - Firefox versions 6 and 5
  - Google versions 14 and 13
  - Internet Explorer version 9 and 8
  - Opera versions 11.51 and 11.50
  - Apple Safari versions 5.1 and 5.0.5

It is no wonder there is so little progress in the world of browsers ... with still too limited support for either/both HTML5 and CSS3...

[steve]

Doesn't seem to work in FF6

Why would anyone still use Internet Explorer 6 ... or 7 for that matter? Those browsers are so old and so full of 'holes'...

I've no idea, Ray, but who mentioned Internet Explorer 6?

[daj]

Doesn't seem to work in FF6

Why would anyone still use Internet Explorer 6 ... or 7 for that matter? Those browsers are so old and so full of 'holes'...

Who mentioned IE6?!

And I do not need to hear that continuously repeated 'crap' from too many IT managers about the difficulties in updating the browsers on their networks ... One word, 'laziness' ...

Wrong argument Ray!

Sadly, in this crazy world we live in, some of the big corporates developed web sites that only work with IE6 (or 7). This presents all sorts of support problems for me. I am one of those IT Managers but I'm not lazy, just a realist living in an imperfect world where I must support a plethora of standards. We upgraded everyone to IE8; it was a difficult decision to make as we need to access certain professional services sites that do not work on decent browsers. Anyway, we overcame it (by having IE6 on a few VM's that folk can use). I'd much prefer to move away from IEx but this opens up a whole new set of problems for us

[mcrossley]

Our organisation has just upgraded to IE8, but I run IE9 myself, however some internal web sites do not function correctly without some serious manipulation of the IE9 compatibility settings (or I run Chrome or FF which works with some of them but not others). This not something that the IT departments would want to support for everyone** [they don't/won't support me or many of my 'consulting' colleagues as we run unsupported OS versions, and all sorts of stuff that IT hate in order to do work for our customers].

** Over 300,000 employees!

[daj]

You are very lucky Mark -- Myself and my team only have 200 users to support and there is NO WAY I would allow them to run their own setup!

[andrewinpopayan]

I am using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110805 Linux Mint/9 (Isadora) Firefox/3.6.20 and it loads OK