Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
W3BNR wrote:
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 am 99.9% (plus 0.1%) in agreement with your statement. :-)
Unfortunately, it is a matter of the education of the people hired as
"webmasters" and "dee-ziners." We who are in the know can do little more
than send alerts to the companies who hire these uneducated people.
Recently, my local newspaper completely changed their site
(unnecessarily) and there are hundreds of errors. An editor invited
comments on "the new look" of the site, so I responded with tasteful
comments about the mistakes. There was no answer, so I re-responded
twice more (finally CC'd the email of the chief editor), and still no
response.
One of the rarely touted benefits of W3C "compliance" is to have a
web site viewable on various devices other than a PC or MAC. Try
the site on a cellphone or even on a scaled down window - then
report the lack of functionality along with the most flagrant
errors as possible causes.
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