Dear Duke Energy (and your web guys)

Dear Duke Energy,

I would like to activate my account online, as I very much cherish the wonderful utilities that you bring to me in my daily life. However, in your quest to make your website “Web 2.0″ cool, with Wizbang Ajax, you have managed to make me and every other Firefox and Safari user, unable to achieve our goal of SIGNING UP FOR YOUR SERVICE!  Look, I understand that you’re a Microsoft shop, and making Microsoft powered websites look and act  “Simple” is a really really hard - but for the sake of everyone, at least make your registration work on non Microsoft browsers.

Dear Duke Energy Web Guys,

Please don’t try to resize my browser window, I understand that it might be for some really really important reason (to you) - but just stop. You do not have permission to get my properties of my Window.resizeFrame, so stop trying. While we are on the topic, it’s also breaking your dynamically loaded County selector.

But lucky for you, you left the old way in the code, so it will be easy to go back. (while you’re at it, get rid of those tables, it’s a simple form! Oh yea, I forgot - Microsoft shop… Sorry :(

Line 227: http://imcltebizt.duke-energy.com/Content/SAS/new_service_location.asp

	<div id="CountyLabel" style="visibility: hidden;">
		Please select your County:
	</div>
	....
	<div id="CountyList" style="visibility: hidden;">
		<select name='cboCounty' onchange='inputChanged()' size='1'><OPTION value=''> </OPTION><OPTION value='Bartholomew'>Bartholomew</OPTION><OPTION value='Benton'>Benton</OPTION><OPTION value='Boone'>Boone</OPTION>....</select>
	</div>

Sincerely,
Brandon Corbin

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