[freedompeace]

For a well-designed website, I must say, I'm a bit worried.

> The cooperation takes place by our Group Business Platform using current security standards and ciphering methods. A secure data interchange has high priority!

Because that's all there is to security.

> All data is transferred with a 128 Bit SSL coding and are even secured by your log in on our Group Business Platform. This ciphering method is used in all areas of the platform and is added with further certificates.

I didn't realise we could code in SSL.

> The Volkswagen Group is using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 as standard the for displaying web pages. For the daily work with our platform, we recommend you to use the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, too.

IE6 ftw!

> By using the current version and the updates provided by Microsoft we guarantee you a secure connection.

I must have been living under a rock; I thought that it was because Internet Explorer was so insecure that I get patches every week for it. Oh, but then again, those were security issues with the rendering, not the connection. It must be the connection that is so important!

> For security reasons, the Volkswagen Group does not recommend other browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape etc. as they show security gaps.

Oh. Okay. I understand.

[Vivtek]

Wow, that translation is really crappy. "The cooperation takes place by" is a dead giveaway that it was translated from German by somebody who'd never heard that you should reword things a little in English. I used to churn out this kind of text, back when I'd just started translation.

"Coding" is also a mistranslation, fwiw; should be "encoding". I like the number mismatch in that same sentence - data "is" transferred but "are" secured. For computer applications you normally go with data as a mass noun (always singular, like water or corn), but you definitely should be consistent with your choice.

Ugh. This whole thing is causing me bad proofreading flashbacks. I'm leaving.

[brazzy]

The funny thing is that the German version reads like it was badly translated from English...

[5hoom]

You forgot this bit in the technical requirements:

-PC or MAC with internet connection

-Web Browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 is recommended)

So... they mean a (pretty old) PC with internet connection then?

[DanBC]

There was an IE for Unix. So there's some HPUX boxes that could have been running some version of IE. I have no idea what version it got to. I have never met anyone who used it.

[tommi]

Thanks for the info, didn't know that.

According to wikipedia, the project was discontinued as late as 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

[eropple]

Hey now, there's Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac. Supports high-quality (broken) CSS1, y'know.

[5hoom]

I stand corrected and humbly defer to your knowledge of horrible browsers ;)

[chc]

Not IE 6. Mac stopped at 5.something.

[p4bl0]

Yup, but I remember IE 5.2 on Mac being a little better wrt. the w3c standards than IE 6 on windows, so I guess the version numbers weren't really comparable.

[chc]

It was better in some ways, but IIRC the box model was the brokenest thing ever.

[freedompeace]

Don't worry! It's an industry-wide standard (apparently).

[tsotha]

It's a good thing they require an internet connection. Because otherwise, you know... chaos.

[dextorious]

While I agree (and laughed) with most of your comment, this is incorrect:

> I didn't realise we could code in SSL.

"Coding" does not solely mean "programming", it also has the meaning of "encoding" in general.