[Gllug] Mozilla unsupported?

[Ian Norton]

hehe,

good one john, 

:-)

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 01:16:27AM +0000, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> Dear Marks & Spencer's web designer,
> 
> Please can you remove your unnecessary "unsupported browser" check from your 
> website.
> 
> By using some proxy trickery that fools your site into always seeing IE as the 
> user agent, the following browsers display your site perfectly (including the 
> mostly unnecessary Javascript):
> 
> Mozilla 1.0, 1.1, 1.2
> Opera 6, 7
> Netscape 7
> Konqueror
> Galeon
> 
> Which leaves no reason to block them out, except some daft belief in and 
> adherence to an ancient browser-checking technique from the early 90s.
> 
> If you have another read through the freely available W3C recommendations, you 
> will find that the web has come a long way since 1993, and you may find the 
> terms "XHTML/CSS" and "graceful degradation" mentioned.
> 
> This allows your site to be viewed even in simple text browsers, which are 
> used by the blind attached to speech readers or braille consoles, while still 
> allowing flashy animated purple dancing bears to pirrouette across the screen 
> and annoy the hell out of people using browsers capable of displaying such 
> unnecessary ursine brou-haha.
> 
> Currently, your site goes down with the likes of Argos and Royal Bank of 
> Scotland as most browser-unfriendly sites of all time. Believe it, there are 
> such comparison pages out there with your name on it!
> 
> Great socks and pants, but please get with the 21st Century.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jonathan Harker.
> 
> 
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