On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:54:45PM -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote: > As unfortunate as it is, my bank for e-banking services REQUIRES (via > UsetAgent string) IE and/or Netscape 7.x. That's just plain stupid, I've > told them to only check the Mozilla part of the string so users with > other Mozilla-based browsers like Firefox or Opera can also access the > sites... They do not listen. Keep trying -- it takes a long time for big institutions to change. For a long long time, one of the large financial institutions I use had the same problem, but after several years, suddenly they had a site redesign that was basically standards-compliant and had no such arbitrary checks. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> --> Fedora Users & Developers Conference, hosted by Boston University <-- February 18th, 2005 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon1>
