Browsers for those IE-only sites

[Tony Nelson]

At 7:44 PM +0200 6/22/05, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 20:35 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Having failed at using certain websites with Opera, Konquerer, and
>> Firefox, I feel the need to install yet another browser on my FC3 box.
>> Can anyone recommend a browser that might succeed where the big three
>> have failed? I usually use KDE but am open to gnome projects as well,
>> as they will run in my KDE desktop anyway.
>You already listed the (graphical) three engines available for Linux:
>Opera, KHTML and Gecko. Any other browser uses one of these engines. So
>if your website doesn't work with these, you are out of lock. Either you
>force the web designer make a better web site, or you must try to run IE
>with wine (horror).

The usual reason a website doesn't work is that it foolishly detects MSIE
and refuses to work without it.  Most browsers can be configured to say
they are MSIE, and often do as default, but most sites that check do it
incorrectly in many ingenious ways, so more dishonesty is required from the
browser.  There are also some sites that actually require features of MSIE
that don't exist in other browsers.  Still, probably all that is needed is
to set any of the browsers the OP uses to lie properly and completely about
what it is.  Someone on this list probably knows how to do it, and a Google
search for "MSIE lie" turns up useful-looking results.
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