Progress ...

... is being able to file my Income Tax on a Mac.

Using Firefox.

And doing it in 1 minute.

I must qualify that this happened after several attempts to log in. First, using Firefox - when the system kept taking me back to the home page instead - then Safari, where nothing progressed, then Internet Explorer, where the home page layout got busted and I had to scroll horizontally to click on the Login button.

After entering my password, the page just hung for minutes and the Submit button had been de-activated, so I couldn't do anything but quit the browser and try again with Firefox. That was when everything suddenly worked. It was erratic, but I've done my duty as a citizen and that's what matters.

Looking at the page code, they're using more styles now ... but they can do so much more with stylesheets than simply colouring table row backgrounds.

But yeah. Overall, this is progress.

[Update: I went to another public web page on the site and realised they could cut down on a lot of code, still. Lookie here:

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