RE: The Age (AU) Technology Not Supporting Old Browsers

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Smith
> Sent: Friday, 23 April 2004 9:33 AM
> To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Cc: WAI Interest Group
> Subject: Re: The Age (AU) Technology Not Supporting Old Browsers
>
>
> Geoff Deering writes:
> > It seems just this morning The Age started doing this.  You get
> referred to
> > page below if using an old browser (in my case mozilla 1.6).  I
> see so many
> > scripts misidentify current browsers.  It makes the site look
> foolish (and
> > misleads users).
>
> Matthew Smith replies:
>
> Interesting.  I've just tried this with Mozilla 1.6 under Linux
> (my regular
> system) and the page displays fine.

I'm running under windows (my Linux box is being rebuilt).

> Either:
> 1) Since Geoff looked, the compatibility, at least with Mozilla,
> has been fixed or
> 2) The browser sniffing is REALLY touchy.

Okay under IE6
No Good under Opera 7.23
Okay under FireFox 0.8

No Good = Okay, but just missing CSS.

> Sounds like the F2 Network is in need of serious guidance.

I see so many sites like this that get their sniffing wrong.  They try and
be smart, but it looks real dumb.

Geoff

Received on Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:24:39 UTC