[kde-linux] Cannot access certain site

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Mar 29 20:23:07 UTC 2008


Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/03/29 06:18 (GMT-0400) david apparently typed:
> 
>> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 
>>> Usually because they send special versions to browsers they know and crap to 
>>> anyone else, instead of sending standard compliant output to everyone and 
>>> have exceptions for prolematic browsers such as IE:
> 
>> Most web dev folk I've encountered go the other way - they send out 
>> standard compliant output to everyone and tweak only as needed for IE.
> 
> I think you forget who the web dev folk you typically encounter are - the
> enlightened. There are still the unenlightened, who test only for IE and
> Netscape, sending them proprietary tag soup, and sending everything else to a
> "you need to upgrade your browser" page. :-)

I haven't hit one of those "upgrade your browser" pages in years. I do 
remember one saying something like "Best viewed in IE" - which was the 
only browser the site *didn't* work in. ;-)

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David
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