Re: [Sheflug] browser lockin.

[David Holden <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gary,

  Yeh, its just I object in principle to having to change from a 
perfectly good browser with exellent standards support just because they 
have lazy or IE groupie HTML coders.

  dave.


Gary Stimson wrote:
> At 14:28 15/09/02 +0100, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Just tried to access halifax "if" banking site, and its stopped 
>> working with mozilla, I ring them up and I get the pat "we prefer 
>> people to use IE".
> 
> 
> You could try Opera (http://www.opera.com). It's not open source or 
> free, so no good if you're a purist, but it is quite cheap and my 
> personal browser of choice.
> 
> One neat feature that may help your question is its ability to "Identify 
> as MSIE 5" (or other browsers), which fibs to the web site that it's 
> Internet Explorer 5 and also changes its rendering and Javascript 
> behaviour to closely match IE's. I find that most sites that complain 
> about browsers will work if I use this feature.
> 
> I should say that I've only tried Opera for a short time on linux but 
> use it all the time on windoze. (Yes, I'm still running Windows on my 
> desktop and linux on my servers but the release of KDE3 has got me 
> seriously reconsidering this..)
> 
> Gary
> 
> 

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