Time for the swtich has come.
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Jan 28 19:59:25 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:41, Jim Higson wrote:
> On Friday 28 Jan 2005 03:51, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>
> > Firefox, Mozilla, Epiphany, Konqueror. If you use Firefox, install the
> > "User Agent" extension. Many sites that stop you from entering because
> > you're not running IE will work just fine under Firefox if you spoof your
> > user agent string (most sites, in fact, work just fine).
>
> While this is true, I'd recomend against it.
>
> Widespread accpetance of web standards is not going to happen if site
> maintainers continue to think 95%+ of their traffic is from IE users.
>
> Besides, any site that requires a particular browser must be of such low
> quality as to be not worth visiting. I can't think of any sites I visit that
> have such a stupid restriction.
There are some that have activeX controls that apparently won't work
with anything but IE. Even if you spoofed the browser type those sites
would not work.
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Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
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