[Gllug] txuenergi.co.uk website refusing Mozilla

[Sean Burlington]

Tethys wrote:

> 
> Sigh. I've just lost the argument with people at work that browser
> detection scripts are evil, and our site will be having them soon :-(
> 
> The problem is that it's so hard to do it right. Rather than being
> able to query the browser's capabilities, the site has to rely on
> a static lookup table based on the User-Agent to determine if the
> browser will work OK.
> 


what I just cannot understand is why people deliberately make thier 
sites closed to people with unexpected user-agent strings !

If they can't identify the browser - why don't they just treat it as if 
it is, say, MSIE 5.5 ?!!!

I keep waiting for the mobile internet revolution to happen - hopefully 
the proliferation of low capability browsers (owned by rich early 
adopters) will make some people think again about this.

-- 

Sean


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