[Gllug] Mozilla unsupported?

[TSchutzerWeissmann at uk.imshealth.com]

Please can you remove your unnecessary mail from my inbox? But I applaud the
sentiment.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Harker [mailto:jon at jonathanharker.co.uk]
> Sent: 22 February 2003 01:16
> To: customer.care at marks-and-spencer.com
> Subject: [Gllug] Mozilla unsupported?
> 
> 
> 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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