Time for the swtich has come.
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Jan 28 21:04:19 UTC 2005
Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 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.
>
At these sites or actually any site that doesn't support anything but
IE I take the two minutes to email the site maintainers. A few
minutes may be worth it.
A few years ago I came across a site that only supported M$'s java and
would not work. I emailed the site and they basically said that they
were not going to do anything about the java. I wonder how they are
dealing with those MS customers that don't have the MS java? Now if I
could remember?
My bank supports Firefox but not tabbed browsing fully. It croaks on
one link due to tabs. Oh well it can be worked around.
--
Robin Laing
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