[TriLUG] I can't believe reputable companies still do this

[Meyer, David R]

What surprises me is that Microsoft makes it possible to write web pages
that are only viewable by Internet Explorer.  Even if Linux never does
what we all hope it will, M$ will never be the only game in town, and it
will continue to add fuel to the fire that they have been fighting more
and more lately.  Do you think they will ever get it?

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Portzer [mailto:jeremyp at pobox.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:05 AM
To: TriLUG List
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] I can't believe reputable companies still do this

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 09:37, Tarus Balog wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Portzer said:
> > This is the home page of Time Warner Telecom:
http://www.twtelecom.com
> > Try to view it with Mozilla...
> 
> Don't blame twtelecom, blame the stoopid consultant they hired to
build
> their site.

I realize that it probably wasn't a TW Telecom employee who made the
site, but any company is responsible for what their
subcontractors/consultants do.  You can't pass the buck to someone you
hired.  Again, I'd give them some slack if they weren't an
Internet/telco company -- Internet companies must know better than
this!  

> Back when it mattered (Netscape 3.0, etc.) you had to put these checks
in,
> and for many so called web designers it became part of the magic.

But we're a long way from Netscape 3 in 2003!

> I believe there is a setting in Mozilla that will let you spoof other
> browsers to get around just such bad code.

I don't think the standard Mozilla has this feature, though Konquerer
and some of the Mozilla clones do.

--Jeremy

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