Time Attendance Tracking: The Impact of an Outdated Browser

There are a lot of things that can impact on the productivity and profitability of your business. Many of them are actually out of your control ... market fluctuations, business risks, and employee attentiveness. If you've recently discovered the impact that taking control of time attendance tracking can have on your bottom line - congratulations! However, there are some sneaky hidden factors that can still impact on the usefulness of telephone time clocks. One of those is, surprisingly, your internet browser. Today we check out why!

The differences between internet browsers

The world of computing is changing pretty rapidly nowadays. We've come a long way in the couple of decades since 286 computers started appearing in peoples homes with monochrome green and black graphics! You can no longer depend on a single, non-updated program to perform its best in an internet-based computing environment. One of the areas where problems often show up is your browser.

Currently, Internet Explorer 8, the newest version of Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome are more than adequate for ordinary web-based tasks. But when it comes to doing

The impact of an old browser on your telephone time clock experience

The impact that an older version of a browser has on your experience with time and attendance tracking is the same as its impact with other websites. You'll find that:

• Features like drop down boxes might not display correctly
• Text might run off the edge of the screen
• The entire experience will be slower
• Sometimes the browser will crash when you're doing critical tasks like calculating reports or sending information
• Sometimes buttons randomly disappear

Support for older browsers

Every time a website is built, it needs to be tested and refined across all different browsers to make sure that it will operate properly in the different environments.

For most web developers, there is simply no point testing websites in older browsers like Internet Explorer 6 anymore. There are too few customers using the platform to justify the time and expense of testing and making fiddly modifications ... and there is a strong expectation that if any customers are still using IE6 or other similar outdated browsers, they will be changing over very soon!