Some problems about EF's website (Especially for Mac OS user,solved)

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I started to learn english since last week, @EF english training center, so I will try some writing in english from now on.

They have three different kinds of courses ,F2F(Face to face)，WorkShop, and online group lesson.I don’t wanna discuss courses too much, just give some solutions for the problems I met.

First ,When I opened the site with domain name “ec.ef.com”,It will popup a tech check panel,like this:

[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”841”] Tech Check Panel[/caption]

If you are using a morden browser(Like Chrome,FireFox,or Safari), you may meet a problem about  the “popup blocker” function.For security(anti script attack) and better experience ,these browsers stopped all the popup windows from hyperlink.

Unfortunately EF website are using some traditional web application skills,and not doing upgrade well.So it needs to popup for some functions ,like translator,and all the subitems included in Tools menu.

The Solutions are:

1 Use a old version IE browser,like IE 6,It don’t have ad block function,so you don’t need to worry about it.

2 Turn off this ability in morden browsers.Click the link to find the way, Chrome,FireFox,IE, Safari (the safari link that EF site supported was expired,so I found it’s current location).

*All the EF center’s computers are running Windows XP,and IE 8,they look like a Diskless Node(a computer without hard drive),and the managers may did some special setting on them,so It’s ok for them.

About the “EF Advanced Speech Recognition”,or “Flash Player”,just click on it,and install them in steps,it will be all right then.

Secondly,I just couldn’t book a class on my laptop.I use to suspected  it was a platform problem,after I try it on my office pc(Windows7,IE 9),in my virtual machine(Windows XP,IE 8),and even in a Cloud IE Browsers,It still not work,just showed “loading” like this:

Until I debugged it with chrome developer tool,I saw these informations.

I think it’s a .net framework based site,and the application wants to request some data from another domain with Ajax（XMLHttpRequest） ,and the domain is not allowed access,it’s a typical situation in web app developing.So it stuck here.

To solve this problem,we can:

1 Call 400 181 5858 to tell EF’s IT department to solve this problem,(deploy a new service on domain ec.ef.com,or allow requests from ec.ef.com to www.cn.englishtown.com) you may need to wait for a couple of years  -_-|||

2 Why not to login my account on the domain it references to?

So I open it in my Chrome(www.cn.englishtown.com),Finally~it Works !!!

(The Me:”Where did you go my lessons~~?I been looking for you for a week~ “

The Lesson:”I don’t know boss~”)

For some reasons(I guess maybe the old domain name is too long to remember),EF bound their server to a new domain ,but not totally finished yet.

EF’s online training site is their superior product. An international organization like EF should rebuild it every year,for better experience and more students who want to make change.

PS: Use ‘Adobe Connect’ for online lesson is a good choice!