[PLUG] Web servers, browsers, and OSes

[Rich Shepard]

I would like to understand why a web site could allow me to view certain
pages but not others. For yesterday's conference speakers tech check I used
Chrome and was able to log into the conference site, set a password, update
my speaker's profile, navigate the schedule and agenda pages, including the
one for the tech check meeting. But, there was no '+' link to join the
meeting and the two links on the page displayed an empty message page.

The organizer's tech folks suggested it was because I don't use a windows
OS. This makes no sense to me for two reasons:

1) Web servers speak with web browsers, not the underlying OS.

2) I was able to log in and access a number of pages of the conference site
so why not the active meeting session?

There's no need for a solution as I'll drive to their offices in Lake O and
present from their conference room using one of their laptops. But
understanding why site navigation halted at joining a live meeting would be
really good to know since remote video meetings and conferences seem to be
part of the new "normal."

Your thoughts?

Rich