> > Also, the Opera browser also has decent 'masquerading' as Larry describes > it. Dirk, it certainly looks like the issue here is with their site, not > your system. And just to clarify, since I've been more involved with large > webapps -- I have to disagree with Larry here. It'd be nice if you could > choose any browser, but of *course* it matters a great deal. > Any sufficiently complex webapp, especially those that make extensive use of > javascript, java applets, and complex page construction techniques, will > show platform- and browser-issues; what's more is that the amount of work > to effectively provide quality assurance (for the site as a product) for > more than one browser is truly awesome. IIRC there's plenty of open source > projects that work best on IE and mozilla-based browsers... it's nice to be > excited about open source and free software, and to proactively push FOSS' > efforts, but garsh if you examine the current state of the web, most folks > are driving their default Model T (er, IE). > > Regards, > > Ben > > PS - I agree that any site mentioning Navigator is out of date! In many > cases, modifying your user agent string is sufficient = ) > > > On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:07:35 -0800 > Larry Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | Yech, why don't you just use firebird and tell it > | what to set the User-Agent string to. > | > | Mozilla and Konqueror will let you masquerade from a menu item. > | > | And while you're at it, tell us what bank so we may avoid it. > | Unfortunately, this is my Thrift Savings Plan for the US Gov. > Think anyone can straighten them out?! Everything works fine except the online application process, so I'll have to apply over the phone. Also, how do you change the user string in Mozilla, which I like on my Fedora box very much. Thanks to Larry and Ben
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