Re: [LUG] Opera and MSN

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Ian wrote:
> Simon Waters wrote:
>
>> The conspiracy theorists amongst you will love this one, but I'm
>> still prepared to blame incompetence.
>
>
> If you read the article carefully, or even better the
originals, you
> will see that the Opera browser was specifically singled out
for the
> duff page (it could read the IE version fine).
>
> Simply spoofing the browser string to "Oprah" fixed the problem.
>
> Sometimes the conspiracy theorists are right.

Nah I read that. Just because a site chooses to send different
style sheets to different browsers, and that one browser gets a
duff sheet doesn't rule out incompetence. Indeed any other site
and you'd assume the webmaster fouled up. See Microsoft has us
believing even their cockups are planned, perhaps that is part
of the plan.
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