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Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer)

Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer)

Posted Sep 8, 2005 18:38 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
Parent article: Mac and Linux users blacklisted from hurricane relief (The Inquirer)

Any time a user-agent switch "fixes" an incompatibility, I want to smack the developers. I can honestly understand if the developer made a site which honestly only worked with a particular browser; there's limitations to developer funds and most developers don't have the knowledge or skills to make truly cross-browser sites. When a site adds an *artificial* incompatibility by restricting access based on the user-agent string (or making any sort of feature-availability based on the user-agent), the developer is just doing something bloody stupid.


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