Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using [other web > > browser] software if they want to. > > Maybe a significant amount of sites that only work with IE > (unavailable on linux, at least without wine) or Firefox?
If that's still true, I don't see it. I surf with my User-Agent set to an informative string that, if read, encourages the reader to observe W3C standards and stop obsessing over User-Agent [0]. In other words, the site has no idea which web browser I'm using. In the last five years, surfing countless thousands of pages, I've encountered maybe a dozen that refused to work with an unknown browser. In the last two years, I can't recall *any* sites that did so. No doubt they exist, but IME, it's far from "a significant amount". If the pages don't *render* properly in non-mainstream browsers, that's merely a bug to be fixed, and doesn't speak to a monoculture. [0] <URL:http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/agent.html> -- \ "Our task must be to free ourselves from our prison by widening | `\ our circle of compassion to embrace all humanity and the whole | _o__) of nature in its beauty." —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
