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At least you guys don't have a system that uses ActiveX. That's how it is in South Korea[0], supposedly the world's "most wired" nation. You can only use IE, on Windows, to access online banking services. Things are slowly getting better thanks to the explosion of iPhone/iPad/Mac popularity in Korea (particularly the iPhone), but even now, IE has more than 91% market share in South Korea[1].

0: http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s

1: http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2012/05/29/browser-competition-i...



Indeed. This is a typical South Korean bank website[1]. I despair.

[1] http://www.globalibk.com/home.jsp


The page won't even show up.

    if(typeof(navigator.appName)=='undefined' || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")<0)  {
        top.wgmain.location.href='about:blank';
        alert('Microsoft Internet Explorer 사용자만 사용가능합니다.');
        return false;
    }


Wow that Javascript sure is interesting, glad you pasted it three goddamn times!


Sorry. HN seemed to have chewed up and I didn't check my threads link to see if it had worked or not.


Yeah, my reply was rude--I'd delete it if I could but I guess I've passed the point of no return. I can certainly sympathize with software screwing you over.


Yep, they don't even let you access the site without spoofing your user ID. For example, for that site in Chrome you get:

> Microsoft Internet Explorer 사용자만 사용가능합니다.

Translation: Only Microsoft Internet Explorer users can use the site.


We need a screenshot.




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