Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-27 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish between Mozilla-style and IE-style browsers, I suppose. I think it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a list

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, August 25, 2007 19:57, David Brodbeck wrote: On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] I think the ultimate point is that we shouldn't have to emulate some other software to browse the web. Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish between

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread Jamin Davis
Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a list of the ID strings of every single niche browser someone might happen to be using. So they should just send standards-compliant html when in doubt, not start preaching at us. Nor should they link

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I am able to watch videos athttp://video.yahoo.combutthat might be because I changed general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0.0.6 I think the ultimate point is that

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-26 Thread CaT
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:47:52PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: So it looks as though they are objecting to Linux per se, rather than to the browser. I'm not sure what url you accessed as you did nto state but watching a video off video.yahoo.com.au wfm using Seamonkey under Debian. -- To

big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Lyons
It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our minimum requirements If you are having

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Richard Lyons wrote: It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our minimum requirements

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 10:47, Richard Lyons wrote: It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Aug 25, 10:00 am, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Aug 25, 11:20 am, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our minimum requirements If you are having difficulties, please upgrade or switch your operating system. I am able to watch videos

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:15:15 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 10:47, Richard Lyons wrote: It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: It is amusing -- or not, depending on your viewpoint -- that clicking on a video clip at yahoo.com from a standard etch install is met with a page of error messages, starting: We have checked your operating system: It does not meet our

Re: big brother yahoo

2007-08-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: I am able to watch videos athttp://video.yahoo.combut that might be because I changed general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0.0.6 I think the ultimate point is that we shouldn't have to emulate some other software to browse the