RE: IE-only sites

Ian Stephen <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:22:38 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <1069647758.27941.24.camel@localhost>
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 20:06, Pablo Vieira wrote:
>  My next question would be: is it impossible to emulate the full IE behaviour since
> such a huge amount of sites can either be only visible by IE or work much much better with it?
> 
> Pablo

Have you tried Mozilla?  It is available for Windows and Linux (and more
I think) from www.mozilla.org 

You can set it to identify itself to websites as Internet Exploiter and
may find that the sites function sufficiently well anyway, but are
designed to turn away non-IE browsers because the webmaster is too
busy/lazy/evil to ensure the site works for all.

It is possible that the site really won't function in non-IE browsers
though because Micro$oft adds non-standard features to their products. 

Whether this is innovation or just monopolistic efforts to force you to
use Micro$oft products is a matter of opinion I suppose.

Cheers,
IanS