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navi6779yI recently met a client who didn't know how to zoom in/out of a webpage in a browser.
It's not her fault she has to know but I am amazed how much can be done to literate people more with basic computer knowledge. -
coderme6489yThis was frustrating, but not that much because they're not being a jerk, they just don't know computers that well. I was glad to help, if annoyed that it was so hard to be helpful.
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There's not enough details to go on, esp. browser info, so I ask her to fill out a support ticket.
She does, but doesn't enter any browser info, AND mistypes her email address so I have to correct it to reply to the right email.
I send her to whatbrowseramiusing.co and ask her to send the info to our support email address.
She emails support directly with these words: "I am using Google bowser".
I reply: click "Send to my designer" on whatbrowseramiusing.co and I give her exact steps to fill out the three form fields
She replies: "There is no 'Send to my designer', I only get the option to buy the domain."
I'm like "Whut?!" Did you mistype the URL? Why don't you click the link in the email? (Paraphrase)
This time I get an official email from whatbrowseramiusing.co, telling me that the client is using Safari 5.0.5. Which is five years old.
At that point I replied and said we really can't support this older browser, and included a link to the Firefox download page.
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