The absolutely best was on www.vistaprint.com 's website that was giving away
( or selling very very cheap) business cards.
On Mozilla & Netscape 4 in linux they were free business cards, you only pay
for shipping and when you were using IE on windows you had to pay $10 +
shipping :)
I really hope it was intentional :)
On Monday 11 November 2002 15:37, Grant Parnell - LinuxHelp wrote:
> We were mucking around with something yesterday afternoon and found
> something very peculiar.
>
> A bit of background, we had a supplier website we used that wouldn't work
> with Mozilla simply because the if-then went something like this:-
>
> if (browser == 'IE') { display_page }
> elsif (browser == 'Netscape4') { display_page }
> elsif (browser == 'Netscape6') { display_page }
> else { display_get_lost_page }
>
> So we had a guy in (hi Jason Wooley) who we got to modify Mozilla so at
> the click of a button it could change it's ID between IE, Netscape6 &
> Mozilla.
>
> Hey presto, the supplier website works.
>
> Now I've been a StGeorge customer for ages and have known that some of the
> features only showed up on IE under Windows. Yesterday I tried again, but
> this time telling Mozilla to pretend to be Internet Explorer and well blow
> me down! Everything worked just fine!, I mean all the scheduling of
> payment options & stuff, I also got the different login screen you get
> when using Windows.
>
> Now I think this came about because way-back-when, StGeorge was one of the
> first, if not the very first, to offer internet banking. They used Java
> and Java was part of the browser. These days it's not the case, Java's
> separate and they should be checking the java version rather than which
> browser is being used. I'll probably forward this on.
>
>
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