[Gllug] Mozilla unsupported?

[Jonathan Harker]

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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