On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:51:02AM +1000, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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".
I've been using a UA like "Epiphany/2.18.3-1 (Debian) Gecko/1.8.1.6-1" for a few weeks now, and I can tell you there *are* sites that refuse to work with an unknown browser, still. Starting with gmail, though there is a way to have it work full featured. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
