Ugh! I know exactly how everyone feels.
Our wonderful Ministry of Education contracted out to a hosting provider several years ago to create an online incident reporting site to be used by all schools in the province. Sounds good. The contractor wrote the site in standard HTML and JavaScript ... except for 1 date field where he used an IE-specific JavaScript function.
We're a Linux-using school district who has to run a Windows 98 virtual machine on the secretaries desk *JUST* so they can use this one website when a student is injured at school.
What's most frustrating is that the first year the site was released, we sent them a 1-line patch to fix the site by using a standard JavaScript date function. Response: it's a commercial product, we can't edit anything, but we'll let the vendor know so they can fix it in their next release.
HELLO!! It's a frickin' text file on your web server. Just update that one file!!!
It's now almost 5 years later, several updates to the website later, and that one date field still only works in IE.
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