[geeks] Misc goofiness

[Mike Hebel]

On Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 03:17 PM, Mike Hebel wrote:

> On Thursday, December 2, 2004, at 01:33 PM, Kevin wrote:
>
>> from http://www.leoplanet.net/indexns.html
>>
>> "After some thought, I've decided to discontinue the
>> Navigator-compatible page. It is simply too much trouble for me
>> to keep up two versions of this site, one designed for the
>> browser with a foresight that easily accomodates the needs of
>> webmasters like myself (Internet Explorer) and one designed for
>> backwards compatibility on an archaic, jumbled system of screwed
>> up code that wreaks havoc on webmasters and visitors alike for
>> the "sake of being different from Microsoft" (Netscape). As most
>> webmasters will tell you, writing websites in the year 2002 to be
>> compatible with Mozilla is simply too much trouble."
>
> Fuck Him.  I use Firefox almost exclusively and as insecure as IE is 
> I'm not going to open it up unless I have to.
>
> He's checking something internal too because the User Agent Switcher 
> doesn't fool it either.

Sorry if that sounded a little harsh but I'm damn sick of idiocy in the 
form of Windows cluelessness.

Looking at this guys note it occurs to me that he probably doesn't know 
what "standard" HTML is or why/how Microsoft breaks it.

Mike
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