The One Game

They say that the browser wars are about to start again now that Firefox and Mozilla have reached a level of stability, security and standards conformity that Microsoft's Internet Explorer can only dream about. And it looks as though the good people at SBS - yes those people that receive fat wads of cash from the Australian taxpayer - have made their choice as to who they're supporting in that war.

I've been reading The World Game website everyday since its inception, using a variety of browsers on a variety of different operating systems. Except for a brief days a few years ago I've never had a problem reading it no matter what browser or operating system I chose to use. That all changed two weeks ago.

Now, whenever I use Firefox or Mozilla (on both Windows and Linux) to read the site I get a requester to download an octet-stream. Click save, open or cancel and nothing happens. Load it up with Internet Explorer and there's no problem.

I've written to them several times and have yet to hear a peep. There ought to be a law that requires that all publically-funded websites be standards compliant and accessible from more than one browser.

Not happy, Jan!