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
