011028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > CNN Headline News last night was crawling a story > that concurrent with the release of WinXP, > MSN had modified its server to be more hostile to non-IE browsers. > Chief victim was reported to be Opera. > Has anyone heard more of this? Is Lynx affected?
during Friday 011026 www.msn.com was not accessible: i tried Lynx 2-8-4dev.19 & Netscape 4.7 & both got the M$ download screen. by Saturday very early, the MSN site was open again to both browsers & using Lynx i sent them a note to tell them how amazed i was that anyone at M$ cb so stupid in light of monopoly concerns etc etc. i suspect a junior employee is now pursuing opportunities elsewhere ... 011028 Thomas Dickey wrote: > I've been using Opera in place of Netscape for some sites > (though it doesn't do JavaScript afaik, so it can't replace Netscape), > and have seen the usual ones which offer to upgrade my browser. i've given up on Opera, which repeatedly gets lost downloading complex dox. Netscape 4.7 is adequate & useful for image-heavy sites, but even with my new hi-speed line Lynx remains my browser of choice. a text browser gives you large clear consistent type & you don't have all the blinking garbage to distract your attention; you can also jump around the document with great agility & find image URLs hidden in JS using cached prettysource (thanx again VH). > There was a followup which amounted to a disclaimer by someone at M$ > which stated that other browsers would work, > but the "experience" wouldn't be as good. > Terminology like that leaves me with the impression > that they don't have anything of interest to me on their site, > except some interesting pitfalls. the MSN site is surprisingly banal, but also therefore quite text-friendly. the M$ hack you quote was obviously trying to cover the corporate arse. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
