Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-05-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Truer (and sadder) words have rarely been spoken. Part of the problem comes from the fact (IMHO) that the Universities teach languages and WYSIWYG programs instead of theory and analysis. This alone really does make it hard for them because they don't understand what they are doing and how

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-05-01 Thread James
Problem is that more and more websites are being created by people who say 90% of the public is using IE so I'll save money by not testing my webpage in other browsers/OS's James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:29:52 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:23:14 -0400 (EDT)

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-05-01 Thread Brian
On Wed, 1 May 2002 16:44:48 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that more and more websites are being created by people who say 90% of the public is using IE so I'll save money by not testing my webpage in other browsers/OS's James On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:29:52 -0700

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-05-01 Thread James
On Wed, 01 May 2002 18:30:52 -0700 Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002 16:44:48 -0700 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is that more and more websites are being created by people who say 90% of the public is using IE so I'll save money by not testing my webpage in

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) -- Femme Sounds like what I'm after. Is this in Galeon? Can't see it here. Blind again??? Brian *hands Brian some glasses with New IMPROVED 3D capability!* Yes its in there...

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread heatheri
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:21:25 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Parish wrote: User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) -- Femme Sounds like what I'm after. Is this in Galeon? Can't see it here. Blind again??? Brian

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 30 Apr 2002 15:07:03 +1000, Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:38, FemmeFatale wrote: Sevatio wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:21:25 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Parish wrote: User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) -- Femme Sounds like what I'm after. Is

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters choose to ignore them in favor of proprietary junk. If more people complained to these sites then maybe they'd worry about W3C

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread Alexander Skwar
»FemmeFatale« sagte am 2002-04-29 um 22:38:44 -0600 : User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) However, quite some pages are not using simple UA detection. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage:

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread Brian
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:23:14 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters choose to ignore them in favor of

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:23:14 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Brian wrote: Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-30 Thread FemmeFatale
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:31:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: »FemmeFatale« sagte am 2002-04-29 um 22:38:44 -0600 : User the User Agent Option in the preferences page. It works for me :) However, quite some pages are not using simple UA detection. Alexander Skwar --

[expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread Brian Parish
Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site uses some javascript that doesn't work in Netscape and some other browsers, but I'd be surprised if Galeon couldn't handle it. Is there a way of

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread Brian
Some sites are fooled by setting Opera to IE. This kind of junk sure makes one wonder why there are standards and some webmasters choose to ignore them in favor of proprietary junk. If more people complained to these sites then maybe they'd worry about W3C standards. On 30 Apr 2002 11:49:20

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread Dennis Myhand
Opera has a way you can tell it to imitate other browsers. It has worked for me so far. Peace, Dennis in Victoria Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread Sevatio
Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site uses some javascript that doesn't work in Netscape and some other browsers, but I'd be surprised if Galeon couldn't

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Sevatio wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site uses some javascript that doesn't work in Netscape and some other browsers, but I'd be surprised if

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread William Kenworthy
Exactly where in the preferences? - doesnt show on my version (Galeon 1.2.1) or in the help file? At one time I changed the version string before compiling it which worked as well. BillK On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:38, FemmeFatale wrote: Sevatio wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:38, FemmeFatale wrote: Sevatio wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Can anyone point me at a way of fooling a website that insists on IE and refuses to load if anything else is used? Supposedly this is because the site uses some javascript that doesn't work in

Re: [expert] browser nazi buster

2002-04-29 Thread Brian Parish
Thanks Dennis and Brian, Opera does it just fine. Now if I can just convince Star Office 6 to open the Word docs they send me without crashing Brian On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 13:00, Dennis Myhand wrote: Opera has a way you can tell it to imitate other browsers. It has worked for me so