New e-Learning courses released today

It's course release day at MindLeaders! Today's new arrivals are full Spanish translations of the Certified Professional Food Handler and Certified Professional Food Manager courses, plus new courses in the following topics:

• Innovation in the Workplace
• Problem Solving through Productive Thinking
• Lotus Notes 8.5

Full descriptions of these courses are available in our catalog. If you're a MindLeaders student, these are now available in you course listing.

More courses and tools to come. Please let me know any questions you may have!

Comments

[George Miller]

The problem with your software is you force the user to use Microsoft products, namely the browser. We use firefox and will not use an inferior product like IE, forcing me to do so is poor programming on your part.

[Beth Griese]

Hi George, as a Firefox user myself, I totally understand the frustration. Unfortunately, because IE has used a different set of standards than other browsers like Firefox and Safari, complex online programs have to choose between them, and IE still has the majority of the browser market by far.

This week provides hope, though! The new version of Internet Explorer uses the same web standards that other browsers adhere to, so we're hoping we can change the courses to use the universal standards. There's more about it in http://blog.mindleaders.com/mindleaders_weblog/2008/03/the-effect-of-w.html.

Stay tuned!

[Doug]

Beth,
I'm sorry, but as someone with web development background that is complete BS. While it does require a little more effort to be cross-browser compliant, thousands of complex websites have been managing to handle it just fine. In general if you stick to internet standards, it typically only requires minor tweaking to account for different web browsers, and there are freely available JavaScript libraries that make this even easier.
The fact that Mindleaders has chosen not to stick to Internet standards is a choice, and my guess would be it was based on misinformation from a programmer. Do some research on it and you'll see what I mean, and how misinformation will now likely make it much more expensive for you to fix the situation.
Its one thing to decide that your software is optimized for a specific browser and will be viewed best in that browser, its a whole other thing to use IE specific code instead of the generic, browser independent code, and say "You had to choose which browser to support". That simply is not true, nor does any of the "functionality" in your website require it.