Charles on… anything that comes along

If anyone can get the VAT form linked to on this Treasury page to download on a Mac, I’d appreciate it emailed. It’s only 29KB. But can I get it on Safari or Camino or Firefox? Nope.

If it requires a Windows machine to work, I’ll just grind my teeth. “The document you have requested is available for download only”, the page declares. Yeah, well, actually making it downloadable would be a start then, don’t you think?

I mean, this is just ridiculous. A government department that can’t commission a site so that web users can acquire the documents it insists they need. (It’s for my wife, since you wonder.) I’m just speechless. It matches the amazing incompetence of Siebel’s work for the Department of Work and Pensions, which I encountered before.

Except this is just linking a file. It lives in a directory. It’s a PDF. How can the Treasury break that? How??

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