[OT] Help with question about web page access

Jerome Fine replies: Thank you very much everyone for the help! I answered the reply from Jules since it did not get into too much detail. First, a tiny bit more information. The 2 applications that I am accessing are bank records for my son who I am helping with things that he needs done which he does not have time for. One of the banks STILL allows me to use Netscape 4.78 and do EVERYTHING I want to do. It is the other bank which changed things. These are the ONLY 2 web sites that I look at which require cookies - if any others require cookies, I just don't bother with them. The aspect about the "out-of-sync" information is that the bank still (after more than 2 weeks) displays the same error page when cookies are off telling users that cookies MUST be turned ON to use the web site and how to do so for 4 browsers INCLUDING "Netscape 4.x". My "annoyance" is more that since I "frequently" forgot to turn cookies ON (which I accepted was necessary and corrected the cookie setting so that I could access the bank records), that error page was seen all the time with the message that Netscape 4.x was acceptable. So at the VERY least, the bank could have included a warning message to users on that error page that Netscape 4.x would soon be UNACCEPTABLE and Netscape 7.0 would be required. By ignoring the error message page insofar as placing a warning that Netscape 7.0 would soon be REQUIRED, myself and other users (the bank admits that other Netscape 4.x users were also caught unawares) were left out in the cold. Such is typical these days, as far as I understand, but that does not make it reasonable as far as I am concerned! BUT, what is even more "annoying" is that the bank actually quite freely admits that they CHOSE to not even consider if they could accommodate the users not using Netscape 7.0! The bank definitely states that Netscape 7.0 is REQUIRED and even though I can successfully provide my userid / password to obtain the account balances, I can't get any further when I go to other pages to obtain recent transactions. As stated by others, Netscape is not used very much. BUT, I just can't see that it would have cost the bank very much at all to at least keep Netscape 4.78 users happy for a while by retaining the old code along with the restrictions and provide the users who did upgrade with the new features. After all, things were working with all Netscape versions up until the end of August! If I can still access my account balances, I can't see that the account details are no longer available, just that under Netscape 4.78 they are not being displayed when I get to the page with the new code that is used to display those details with Netscape 7.0 and higher! So it very likely would only have meant that the old code would have been retained along with a check to see which version of Netscape was being used. After all, if there is code to handle both IE 5.x, IE 6.x, Netscape 4.x and Netscape 6.x to start with, it would take very little more to just add Netscape 7.x, at least that seems to be the answer to my original question. Anyone who understands how things like bank records are accessed and has read this far, PLEASE confirm that it would likely have been possible to just include Netscape 7.x using the new features, but still retain Netscape 4.78 with the old features - PLEASE!!!!! Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.