Sorry, this site cannot be viewed on Chrome.

Those of you who are young enough may not realize this is Tim Berners-Lee's nightmare -- in which the Web disintegrates into a multitude of factions, each using a different browser.

"Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee.

I think by describing this technical Balkanization as an artifact of a quaint past, Berners-Lee may have been overly optimistic.

Wow. Speechless.

"At the moment, our website cannot be viewed on the Google Chrome web broswer"

The fact they recommend Firefox or Internet Explorer 8 should send warning bells to anyone with two brain cells that this is a business you will want to avoid at all costs.

To be charitable... they make... whatever "precision coil winding machines" are (I guess machines that precisely wind coils.) There's no requirement that this reflects on their ability to make a decent website. Blame whoever they paid pocket change to set it up.

But... why? Just for the dropdown menu?

There are cross-browser compatible scripts for that.