Re: Time for the swtich has come.

[James McKenzie]

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt;
Sent: Jan 31, 2005 8:43 AM
To: gene.heskett(a)verizon.net, 
	For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
Subject: Re: Time for the swtich has come.

Gene Heskett wrote:
>  On Friday 28 January 2005 19:23, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>  
> >On Friday 28 January 2005 4:09 pm, Jeff Kinz flailed at a keyboard
> >and
> >
> >produced this:
> >
> >>On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:03:13PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford 
>  
>  wrote: 
> >
> >>>says it requires NS or IE, even though it works perfectly well
> >>>in Firefox.   Again, I've written to the webmaster about this,
> >>>but to no avail.
> >>
> >>Richard, What is the other site?   Let the list know.  If every
> >>one here visits it once, the number of non-IE browsers in their
> >>log files will be astounding.  And all we have to do is click the
> >>link in your email.
> >>
> >>Think of it as a grass roots campaign.  Lets see what affect it
> >>has.
> >>
> >>What's the URL?
> >
> >Ah, good point.  That would be http://www.weightwatchers.com
>  
>  
>  email objecting to it has been delivered.  I like this idea, pester 
>  the hell out of these weenies.
>   
Sent my complaint as well.

Added
   For standards info please visit.
   World Wide Web Consortium
   http://www.w3.org/

I think all users that visit a site should take the time to send a 
short message pointing to the World Wide Web Consortium.

----James' reponse-----

I also did this to Fidelity at Fidelity.com.   I pointed out that if I told the web server
that I was using IE under Windows, the site worked just fine.  I'm guessing that they
will add FireFox to their list of supported web browsers.  I even pointed out that the
core of Netscape 7.x is Mozilla and that is what FireFox was built on.

-- 


James McKenzie
A Proud User of Linux!

Time for the swtich has come.

[Dotan Cohen]

Man, I couldn't even get the weightwatchers.com homepage! Directly to
a 'the page cannot be displayed' page I was sent. The only thing other
than that that I could access was the help page, but nothing in there
was accessable either: I couldn't even email tech support! I sould
mention that I was on opera 7.54 on kde in FC3.

If someone is willing to complain to them on my behalf and give them
my email address (dotan_3219(a)dotancohen.com), please do!

Dotan



On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:57:19 -0700 (GMT-07:00), James Mckenzie
<jjmckenzie51(a)earthlink.net&gt; wrote:
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Robin Laing <Robin.Laing(a)drdc-rddc.gc.ca&gt;
>  Sent: Jan 31, 2005 8:43 AM
>  To: gene.heskett(a)verizon.net,
>          For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Subject: Re: Time for the swtich has come.
>  
>  Gene Heskett wrote:
>  > On Friday 28 January 2005 19:23, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>  >
>  >>On Friday 28 January 2005 4:09 pm, Jeff Kinz flailed at a keyboard
>  >>and
>  >>
>  >>produced this:
>  >>
>  >>>On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:03:13PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford
>  >
>  > wrote:
>  
>  >>
>  >>>>says it requires NS or IE, even though it works perfectly well
>  >>>>in Firefox.   Again, I've written to the webmaster about this,
>  >>>>but to no avail.
>  >>>
>  >>>Richard, What is the other site?   Let the list know.  If every
>  >>>one here visits it once, the number of non-IE browsers in their
>  >>>log files will be astounding.  And all we have to do is click the
>  >>>link in your email.
>  >>>
>  >>>Think of it as a grass roots campaign.  Lets see what affect it
>  >>>has.
>  >>>
>  >>>What's the URL?
>  >>
>  >>Ah, good point.  That would be http://www.weightwatchers.com
>  >
>  >
>  > email objecting to it has been delivered.  I like this idea, pester
>  > the hell out of these weenies.
>  >
>  
>  Sent my complaint as well.
>  
>  Added
>     For standards info please visit.
>     World Wide Web Consortium
>     http://www.w3.org/
>  
>  I think all users that visit a site should take the time to send a
>  short message pointing to the World Wide Web Consortium.
>  
>  ----James' reponse-----
>  
>  I also did this to Fidelity at Fidelity.com.   I pointed out that if I told the web
> server that I was using IE under Windows, the site worked just fine.  I'm guessing
> that they will add FireFox to their list of supported web browsers.  I even pointed out
> that the core of Netscape 7.x is Mozilla and that is what FireFox was built on.
>  
>  --
>  
>  
>  James McKenzie
>  A Proud User of Linux!
>  
>  --
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>

Time for the swtich has come.

[Dave Cross]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:55:59 +0200, דותן כהן <dotancohen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Man, I couldn't even get the weightwatchers.com homepage!
> Directly to
>  a 'the page cannot be displayed' page I was sent. The only thing other
>  than that that I could access was the help page, but nothing in there
>  was accessable either: I couldn't even email tech support! I sould
>  mention that I was on opera 7.54 on kde in FC3.
>  
>  If someone is willing to complain to them on my behalf and give them
>  my email address (dotan_3219(a)dotancohen.com), please do! 
It appears that if you go to http://www.weightwatchers.com/index.aspx
then you avoid the broken browser detection code.

hth,

Dave...