NAB Not detecting IE7 I bank with the National . I use their online banking service to pay bills. I keep getting presented with this page everytime I log on to get my jobs done. Hello NAB web site developers. I am using IE7. It’s up to Beta 3 now - did you know that? Here’s my User Agent String: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Maxthon; Tablet PC 1.7; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Here’s an article from the IE Blog- Internet Explorer 7 User Agent String . It was published a few months ago. Have a read of it. I’ve sent you an email a while back but I guess you’ve been busy with other things. Hope you get around and support my browser Thanks Comments Anonymous July 15, 2006 PingBack from http://microsoft.wagalulu.com/2006/07/16/nab-not-detecting-ie7/ Anonymous July 15, 2006 The comment has been removed Anonymous July 16, 2006 I’m confused — you’re upset because websites are not yet supporting the BETA version of MSIE 7? Maybe they’re waiting for a final version. Who wants to be stuck writting code for something (i.e. WinFS) only to have the feature removed? The website in question may already be testing your new browser. So leave your comments until AFTER MSIE 7 is actually released! Anonymous July 16, 2006 If my bank accepted online transactions from a beta browser, I’d be worried. In fact they should be far more restrictive and refuse unpatched versions too. It would be a far more responsible attitude since they are responsable for their clients money. BTW, IE7 b3 is not yet stable. I have it on 7 pc and 2 of them are crashing quite often and one had to be uninstalled because it crashed consistently. Anonymous July 16, 2006 Gee, every major corporation that I have ever worked with tends to have a strict policy regarding support for or even use of beta software in production environments. Is NAB on Microsoft’s formal beta list? Is Microsoft maintaining “corporate grade” support for beta problems in production enviroments, or is this like all betas, a “we’ll get around to it.”. Can I suggest, that you run feedback through the ie team, that if they are going to look for beta support, that they optionally have the ability to have a client force “lying” about it’s ident… Anonymous July 16, 2006 Interesting; you want your bank, who basically has all your money (as well as thousand of others) safely tucked away ready for you to dispose of it as you will, to start acting like cowboys and developing for products that are not even in final release yet.  I dont know too many corporations that would do this and I would suspect (hope) that most banking corporations err on the side of caution whenever embarking on something new - especially when dealing with technology which as we knows can have holes the size of trucks in them.  Hey - maybe I can register as a bank and you can give me all your cash to hold on to - I promise I will act negligently and will use all the untested technologies I can lay my hands on..   I like new technologies as much as the next guy/girl, but when it comes to holding on to my hard earned cash, I think I will go with a company that looks before it leaps.  Banks are traditionally slow starters in this space and I would sleep better at night if that trend was to remain.. Anonymous July 16, 2006 His point his and that is my point too that future browsers are backward compatible so instead of hardcoding the check on version number it is okay to assume that browsers starting from MSIE 6.0 and up are supported (BETA OR NOT) Also like I mentioned in my first blog comment it is possible to change the User Agent string in the registry (if you are a local admin) Anonymous July 16, 2006 man, talk about inciting a reaction. Anonymous July 16, 2006 Now you can imagine how mac users feel. Being “blocked” from using a website when there is no technical reason for it other than a user agent the site doesn’t understand. Websites should never associate features with user agents. Anonymous July 16, 2006 We’re just as amazed that YOU don’t get it too! ha ha Anonymous August 03, 2006 Had a quick look on BlogBeat to see my top 20 posts from last month. Really surprising to… Anonymous August 03, 2006 Had a quick look on BlogBeat to see my top 20 posts from last month. Really surprising to… Anonymous August 09, 2006 I am sure you know that all you need to do is click the continue button an be on your merry way. Anonymous December 18, 2006 The comment has been removed Anonymous May 29, 2009 PingBack from http://paidsurveyshub.info/story.php?title=frankarr-an-aussie-microsoft-blogger-nab-not-detecting-ie7 Anonymous June 09, 2009 PingBack from http://insomniacuresite.info/story.php?id=9431 Anonymous June 15, 2009 PingBack from http://mydebtconsolidator.info/story.php?id=1954 Additional resources Last updated on 2006-07-16