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echo: nthelp
to: Gary Wiltshire
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2004-09-25 08:26:10
subject: Re: MS to secure IE for XP only

From: Adam Flinton 

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

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