On 5/2/11 6:06 AM, 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. >
A postal letter to the CEO -- avoiding an excessive use of technical terms -- can be effective. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
