Time for the swtich has come.

[Robin Laing]

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