Bluehouse does not support my browser
by Volker Weber
The error message differs somewhat from the FAQ. In any case it does not like Firefox 3. Maybe it would, but it is programmed to not like it. Of course I can lie about the user agent, but that's not the point.
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Well you know, in fairness, there are oodles of people out there on Moz 1, Netscape and AOL… :-/
The people who are responsible for this should be thrown into a dark cell without light or access to the outside world... oh wait, they probably are already at such a place...
You can also only share your desktop if you are running Windows and have downloaded and installed a client app. Not good.
I do really like what they've done with BlueHouse - the bringing together of a number of technologies elsewhere and packaging them in an intuitive manner for small businesses. However. just the odd issues like the passwords and online meetings do make you wonder! Still, it is only in beta and they have at least another 3 months to improve things, so we should continue to give them the benefit of the doubt...
Looking at my site stats, Mozilla is the largest constituency of the non-IE browsers supported by Bluehouse: 0.37% of all visits last month. AOL 5 and Netscape 6 are lower than that. Firefox on the other hand accounts for more than 50% of all visits. And four out of five Firefox visitors is on version 3.
Kind of a bummer, that IBM chose to ignore that part of the market for its Software as a Service offering.
Only for the online meeting aspect Volker, it works fine for the rest of the suite.
I have a feeling this comes from their use of Unyte for the online meetings - Unyte has the same restriction. In fact, Sametime Unyte 8.2 has just been announced, including support for FF3 and ODF formats "in the next three months".
So I would suggest that support will be there by the time it goes into production.
Does not support your browser ? You Lucky guy. I'm not able to register, because Bluehouse doesn't support my mail adress. (...info)
what happends if you test from the outside for browser
https://ash-cs16.conferenceservers.com/browser/?brand=Bluehouse
Funny, as all other IBM technology allows Firefox and seems to have no problem with it. I had not tried to host a meeting yet and just tried as well ... no go Joe!
Guess IBM and Netflix both don't like Firefox ... I can visit Netflix and choose DVD s but can't look at them online ... hhmm, wonder if Netflix is running IBM software in The background .....
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