RE: VBScript runtime error on MSN sites

> From: Olivier Kurzweg [SMTP:okurzweg@siticom.co.uk]
>
> be that User-Agent headers were anonymized.
> Apparently, some weird sites want to have a control on the browser you
> use,
> sigh...
>
        That's quite reasonable if they are serving platform
        specific, and browser specific scripting languages.

        In my view, they shouldn't serve scripting languages, or
        should only serve Javascript used in non-fundamental ways,
        but given they are using proprietory scripting, they should
        be sensing the User-Agent and providing alternative content
        (I didn't check carefully, but suspect they don't have the
        alternative content!) if the user agent is not definitely
        known to be able to cope.

        (Note, some Lynx users object violently to sites they
        perceive as rejecting them because of a lack of frames
        capability, although this is sometimes a misunderstanding of
        how <noframes> works, so the safest thing of all is not to
        server content that will break on some browsers.)
Received on Wed Feb 16 2000 - 10:26:11 MST