David E. Ross wrote:
On 12/3/11 10:42 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Dustbin wrote:
Stan wrote:
Did we ever come up with a sure way of tricking sites into thinking
we are using Firefox?
I need to switch banks and it appears they only accept the browsers
on their list.
It is an outrage that these scumbags should be telling us what
browser to use. If they wrote their code properly it would simply
work with any properly coded browser.
You are very correct in your statement. "Scumbag" may be a little strong
though, as most folks/companies simply aren't aware of standards, or the
existence of browsers beyond, say, Internet Exploder, Firefox, and maybe
Safari.
Unfortunately, the only qualification for being a webmaster/author is
you must be ... breathing.
See my "'Professional' Web Developers" at
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/Webdevelopers.html>.
Just to be clear, there are valid reasons to have deployed website code
that does not "validate" properly, but only when that issue works around
a BUG in a browser you do support either by direction or necessity, AND
the compliant browsers happily ignore/don't-care about the error for
newer browsers/you're users.
Also you should NEVER use one BUG to work around another, fwiw. (like
the old IE ism |* HTML {| in CSS.)
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