Time for the swtich has come.

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:54:45PM -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> As unfortunate as it is, my bank for e-banking services REQUIRES (via 
> UsetAgent string) IE and/or Netscape 7.x. That's just plain stupid, I've 
> told them to only check the Mozilla part of the string so users with 
> other Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox or Opera can also access the 
> sites... They do not listen.

Keep trying -- it takes a long time for big institutions to change. For a
long long time, one of the large financial institutions I use had the same
problem, but after several years, suddenly they had a site redesign that was
basically standards-compliant and had no such arbitrary checks.

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