Ya know I just might add a pop up on my website just inspit of doing it? hehe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Bull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 2:00 PM Subject: re: [newbie] The MSN.com access > Hmmm much though I agree...... > if only things where that simple unfortunately around 85% of web users use > IE4 already and much though it pains me to say so (maintiaining a commercial > site with around 2000 lines of javascript) I like a lot of developer have no > option but to occainsionally write stuff especially for >IE4 (I am getting > to a mozilla version but it aint ready yet) by simply commercial restraints. > > I suspect that the whole msn issue is something similar although I should > imagine their reasons for not supporting the moz are somewhat different to > ours (ie lack of programming resources) and rather more politically > motivated. > > Matt > > <snip> > I am off the opinion that anyone running apache, should add a javascript to > their page, that tests > for IE and pops up an alert to this effect: > > "You are using Internet Explorer to view this site. Although this site > should work fine, we cannot > guarantee that you will not lose some functionality because of your choise > of browser, Microsoft do > not always follow standards with the internet and as such we can not know > for sure if it will work > or not..(and neither can anyone other then Microsoft themselves.) > we suggest you download Mozilla (free) mozilla.org This is a more standards > compliant > browser then Internet Explorer. Please click OK to continue. (should you > wish to try.) > > If Ten million web sites started popping that up when visited by an IE user, > Microsoft would > Bcktrack pretty quickly as it might indent on their browser market share. > > Just some thoughts.... I may actually put up a warning like that I think,, > > > rgds > > Frank > > <snip> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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