Random Liegh wrote: > Albert wrote: > >> ahmetaa wrote: >> >>> According to news.com, >>> posibly you've already heard, msn does not work with no browser but >>> IE now. >>> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7655334.html?tag=mn_hd >>> >> Look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97222. They're >> blocking Netscape 6.1 because of unspecified security flaws. They >> will let 6.1 see the MSN page however. And according to the CNET >> article, " >> >> "All of our development work for the new MSN.com is...W3C standard," >> said Bob Visse, the director of MSN marketing, referring to the World >> Wide Web Consortium, which is developing industry standards for Web >> technologies. "For browsers that we know don't support those standards >> or that we can't insure will get a great experience for the customer, >> we do serve up a page that suggests that they upgrade to an IE browser >> that does support the" standards >> >> So, by their logic, MSIE should be banned too, eh? Netscape 4.x would >> too, but Mozilla really shouldn't... >> >> > > Actually; their logic seems to be more "we cannot control their > experience" and less about standards, so there you go...it's ie 4 or > nothing. > > And I've tried loading msn under netscape for (under linux, however); > and it doesn't work for me, personally. Hadn't tried it on Mozilla, though. >
They wouldn't have spent all that money giving 'free' MSN service with purchase of a computer if they didn't have some motive. Guess what that motive is ...
