No Linux for Online Job Testing

[Jestin Stoffel]

> I suppose the thing I find irritating about this is
> that industry leaders (excepting Microsoft, of course)
> use platform independent testing software.  Cisco in
> particular used testing software on its Academy
> website which worked great for me in Firefox on Debian
> Linux.  Is it really that much more cost-effective to
> use Windows-dependent testing software on a website?

I think many web developers confuse popularity with standardization.
Nobody works hard creating a web application in hopes that it won't be
usable to a segment of the population.  They write the app assuming that
you will be running Windows with IE, as they see this as a standard and
not an option.  They only choose proprietary languages and so forth
because they aren't even aware anything else exists.  I work with a
bunch of programmers who don't seem to realize that there is such a
thing as software created without Visual Studio, and I'm sure whoever
developed this web app has similar views.  Welcome to monoculture.

--Jestin