On 19-Sep-00, Tony Rolfe wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who gave assistance with my Olympics.Com problem. > All is working well now. > > However.... > > WTF is this spoofing all about? I thought it as simply telling lies > to the other end when It says "What sort of Browser are you?" "Oh, > I'm MSIE version 4.0" you reply with fingers crossed. > > But there must be more to it than that. I'm sure that's all it is. It's a perfectly moral lie, because it is simply a counter to MS' filthy dishonest corrupt business practices. I think. . . > > Also, What is the best Spoof to have as default and how do you know > when to change it (and what to?)? I've always believed that Mozilla was the purest and most standard html to spoof as. > JavaScript. I remember, a year or so back before V3 Etc came out > that the Amiga community was screaming for JS. Now, at the first > sign of trouble, the advice is to turn it off. This is all too > confusing for a bear of very little brain. That is the intention. Javascript will never work perfectly as long as MS muck around outside Sun's standards. > Finally, I've found that ignoring frames speeds up everything like > crazy ( and also gives a much more displayable image on a 256 x 640 > screen). Is there any problem with doing this? I've never tried that, but I will now. > Sorry if I'm a bit bewildered here, just when I thought I'd got the > hang of this stuff. The whole thing is designed to make you believe them when they say your only problem is that you need a new version of IE ($199 THIS WEEK ONLY!!) . All the errors of internet, html, javascript, email etc and the lot are deliberately designed in by the devil in Seattle. Regards -- Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. Support *Open Directory Project* No Banners, No junk-just information. *ODP *is built by volunteers and owned by the community . *-------> http://dmoz.org <*-----------Check it out *Patrick Ford Auckland, New Zealand* /#icq#/ 51642681* _____________________________________________________________ NetConnect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an 'unsubcribe' message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
