On Monday, May 02, 2011 05:45:44 AM W3BNR wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 7:28 AM Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> > W3BNR wrote:
> >> Yahoo upgrading mail service in the near future. Looks like
> >> SeaMonkey will not be supported (as usual). Here's a quote from
> >> their page:
> >>
> >> "You can upgrade now to the newest Yahoo! Mail if your browser is
> >> Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Safari 4, or Chrome 5 or newer."
> >
> > Please see any of hundreds of threads on how to add "Firefox 3.0"
> > to your User Agent string.
> >
> > Nearly all web sites that choose to "browser-sniff" only look for
> > the three or four most popular. This does not mean that they
> > "don't support" your choice of browser. It will still work.
>
> I'm well aware I can spoof anything I want or even use an IE viewer
> within SM. I'm just po'ed that sites do not want to admit (read
> "support') other internet software. If they would make their sites
> W3C compatible there would be no need to even sniff for the
> browsers. 99.9% of the now existing browsers would work (read "no
> need for support") with their pages.
I agree with your comments, but have the sites I have reported problems
to don't even know what the W3C site is. I have even taken some of the
sites source code, ran it thru the W3C verifier and sent the webmaster
the error list, no responses. All they know is IE works !!
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