CNN video

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:54:27 -0500
Rod Haper <rhaper at houston.rr.com> wrote:

> Left click 
> the User Agent icon and select  the "Netscape 4.8 (Windows Vista)" 
> option.  CNN videos will [now] play correctly.

By golly, you are correct. So if we lie to CNN's web server
and tell it we are running netscape on windows vista, it lets
us watch videos, but not if we tell it we are running firefox
on linux. Sigh...

I thought flash was supposed to be this universal runs everywhere
thing. Why would they even need to look at what browser is running it?