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to: Adam Flinton
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2004-09-27 11:09:28
subject: Re: MS to secure IE for XP only

From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 08:26:10 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

> Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>>> Yup.  I use OPera here almost excllusively.  When I do run into a
>>> site  that I
>>> want to view that uses ActiveX (the only reason I see to use IE at the
>>> moment), I always send the webmaster a note asking, "what are you
>>> thinking?...."
>>>
>>> I get some real interesting replies.
>>>
>>>  /m
>>>
>>  Care to share?  Opera's my main browser too.  Goddamn tvguide.com
>> just  broke that changing their format recently.  I'm a heavy user of
>> their  listings and now I have to use IE to see it.  Doesn't Opera-te
>> properly.
>>
> Can you set the Browser response (i.e. tell it to pretend to be IE?
>
> I've hit a number of sites which say IE or NS4.x only & then barf when
> they get the return code given by Moz. However when I set Moz to pretend
> to be IE then none of them have exhibited any problems.
>
> Adam

Yup, I have that set normally.  I've tried TVGuide both ways.  Assholes.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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