Beck38
11-13-2015, 04:56 AM
In the last couple of days, 'Netflix' decided to roll out a massive change to the dvd portion of its website, trying to change the 'look and feel' from the original (going back to the beginning) text based layout to (to me) a dumb down 'icon/windows8' type look.
Missing from this change is listing what TYPE of disc is in ones que, DVD or Bluray. Apparently, they didn't run any browser compatibility tests on the HTML output of their page generators, as their customer service folks seem to be running the latest Firefox browsers and have no problems seeing a 'disc type' column, yet older Firefox versions (necessary with older MS OS's) don't 'see' the column. Interestingly, neither does the latest 'Chrome' browser or any of the (several) MS Internet Explorers versions I was able to try.
Yet another problem created by some programmers who are trying to justify their jobs (and paychecks) by convincing their management that something that has worked perfectly for more than a decade needed to be changed.
It will be interesting to see how long it will take them to fix this latest screw-up, if ever.
Missing from this change is listing what TYPE of disc is in ones que, DVD or Bluray. Apparently, they didn't run any browser compatibility tests on the HTML output of their page generators, as their customer service folks seem to be running the latest Firefox browsers and have no problems seeing a 'disc type' column, yet older Firefox versions (necessary with older MS OS's) don't 'see' the column. Interestingly, neither does the latest 'Chrome' browser or any of the (several) MS Internet Explorers versions I was able to try.
Yet another problem created by some programmers who are trying to justify their jobs (and paychecks) by convincing their management that something that has worked perfectly for more than a decade needed to be changed.
It will be interesting to see how long it will take them to fix this latest screw-up, if ever.