in my opinon, outlook sucks, and netscape mail is better, therefore I
have no experiance w/ It, but "That is just my opinion"


-Andrew Litt


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 02:29:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 08:33 PM -0500 10/05/2004, Ryan Eisworth wrote:
> >Usually "IE only" sites can be fooled by changing the identifier for
> >the browser. It's all to do with advertising if you ask me.
> 
> hum.  Sometimes.
> 
> There are THREE identities that can be checked.
> 
> First is the initial contact identity that's exchanged when the http
> connection is created.
> 
> Next is the browser identity.
> 
> Then there's the JavaScript identity.
> 
> (iCab lets you easily change the latter two from its Prefs and Filters).
> 
> Sites that check the latter two are easy to fool.  But sites that
> check that first can be a show stopper.
> 
> Is it for advertizing?  Sometimes.  Mostly it's because the company
> signed one of those special MS contracts to get a cheap deal on their
> IIS servers.  And sometimes it's because the company's high quality
> (*barf*) programmers insisted on using things like ActiveX and MS
> proprietary Java enhancements.
> 
> sigh.
> 
> - Dan.
> 
> 
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