# Holy crap, just about had a heart attack! (Latest Mac update)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-just-about-had-a-heart-attack-latest-mac-update/427261>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-just-about-had-a-heart-attack-latest-mac-update/427261 "2007-11-20T23:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-just-about-had-a-heart-attack-latest-mac-update/427261/21 "2007-11-21T15:59:55Z")

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I don’t understand why sites do this. It makes it harder on both the user and the site programmers. They have to know every time a new numbered version of every browser that comes out in order to make it work. But of course they DON’T.

Why not use \>= ??? (If FirefoxVersion \>= 1 Then…)

My SIL had the exact same problem with school software - only she is a teacher and the site was for entering grades. She had IE7 and apparently the site ONLY worked with IE 5.5 or 6. Why not \>= 5.5?

I had to send her over to her parents’ house to use their machine with IE6 so she could enter grades for the semester. I also told her to please send a note to the school’s IT people alerting them to the final release of IE7 (which had happened months before) and suggesting maybe their staff should update the requirements.

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**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-just-about-had-a-heart-attack-latest-mac-update/427261/22 "2007-11-21T17:22:33Z")

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Yeah, no kidding. I lost a lot of time I could have spend on school work. When I get time, I’m going to let the IT guys at school know yet again they’re neglecting their Mac users.

I really appreciate the help I got here. It would never have occurred to me to just change the User Agent.

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