Bank webpage does not work no matter which browser I use

Question

HHello
I tried all the browsers, I still cant use my bank's website, I think they run a script, to make a payment, I click on which account I want to use in a list in a table in the top of the page, and I choose the beneficiary from a drop down menu, which then displays my bill, I click on that, then I push the submit button, and the payment goes through. This works on every PC I've used, but not on the Mac. Any idea how to fix this?
Also, my online trading page does not work, it just says, error, reload, which never works.
I can’t do any work on this computer, this is very annoying.
Thanks

Answer 1

Tom is absolutely correct that the fist step should be to contact the bank and trading account and ask them if they support Macs (and if not, why not).
Taking it a step further, while some websites are coded using Microsoft webpage coding tools that generate non-standard HTML, or use ActiveX to implement page features (never mind that ActiveX is notoriously a huge security loophole --- just what you waqnt on a financial website, no?), and those pages will only work with Internet Explorer under Windows, a depressing number of websites are coded using proper HTML and Java instead of ActiveX, but the pages are coded to check the browser type ("user agent") and refuse to work if the browser doesn't report that it's IE/Windows. This is usually done so that the programmers don't have to bother to check their coding on other platforms or browsers, in the belief that doing so makes for more efficient (read: cheaper) development.
You can check if that's the case with the sites you're trying to use by enabling the Debug menu in Safari, then uing that Debug menu to set the User Agent to be MSIE Windows.
To enable Safari’s Debug Menu, open Applications> Utilities> Terminal when Safari is closed and enter:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1
Restart Safari to see the Debug Menu.