Time for the swtich has come.

[Scot L. Harris]

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.

-- 
Scot L. Harris
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