[Gllug] XP Protest (Results)

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

Xander <xander at harkness.co.uk> wrote:

> Shall we extend the XP protest and now include the Apache mod for
> banning IE on a Friday.  Then the public may understand how much of the
> Internet is not M$ run:
>
> This is what I get when going to msn.com: (yep that is even in Opera
> masquerading as IE! - they obviously did their homework)...

Yep - checked that one out myself, and then did my bit as a decent netizen by sending them the following:

  "Your new version of MSN seems to have been designed not to work with non-MS browsers. As a frequent user of Opera, alongside IE, that seems very shortsighted of you and encourages me away from the use of your products in my professional role as webmaster."

  "When writing my websites, I acknowledge differences between browsers by using detection routines and returning appropriately formatted content. I would be much more impressed if you could extend your visitors the same courtesy."

Not that I particularly care about visiting the MSN site, but it's the principle of the thing.

BTW, where can I find out more about the Apache mod you mentioned... ;-)

Wulf




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