[SpamCop-List] Re: This site best viewed with anything but IE?!?!

[Kenneth Brody]

Blammo wrote:
> 
> On 25 Jun 2004 Kenneth Brody entered spamcop and left
> news:40DC28BA.FC7D7EC5 at spamcop.net:
> 
> > How do you feel about "professional" websites that insist on writing
> > web pages that work _only_ in IE?  (Not just "works best with", but
> > "requires".
> 
> Just yesterday I ran into a page that wouldn't let you login with Firebird,
> not intentional but apparently some HTML error that I haven't figured out
> yet. I rewrote thier sloppy code removing all the useless code and saved a
> simple login form on the Desktop, and it now logs in fine.
> This same site promotes "IE 6 or Netscape 6", but this doesn't imply they
> know anything about HTML or Javascript, or even bother to validate.

Yes, sometimes it's just bad HTML.  Othertimes, it's "check for IE and do
this code, otherwise check for NS and do this code, otherwise give an
error message".

Then there are the ones that don't know how to check browsers in the first
place, like the United States Postal Service (www.usps.gov) which gives
me the following warning on every page on their site:

    Warning, you are using Opera Version 7.51 (Windows 98)

    The recommended browsers to view this page are:
    - Internet Explorer 4.0 or better
    - Netscape 4.0 or better
    - Mozilla 1.0.1 or better
    - Opera 5.0 or better

Apparently, Opera 7.51 doesn't fall under the "Opera 5.0 or better"
category.

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