The Post Office hasn’t worked out there are Mac users out there

I wanted to open a Cash ISA.
When I clicked on the Download Application Form button on http://fixed.postofficeisa.co.uk/isaapplication.aspx it downloaded a windows .exe self-extracting archive.
I moved it to a windows box, and it extracted to the expected pdf.

But for dog’s sake!
There are any number of other self-extracting formats that are less platform-dependent.
And for a 1.3M file, do you really need to compress it nowadays?

And it gets worse, it turns out.
If you let the page time out on you you don’t get a nice message; you get a Server error:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /Timeout.aspx

Stunning.

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Cannot play media. You do not have the correct version of the flash player.

This is a joke – right? Everyone tells me that the iPhone is rubbish because it doesn’t do Flash, unlike the wonderful Android.

The very first page I try to look at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646

And yes, I went through the updating process, and it tells me I have the latest version.

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