Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 11, 2005 2:39 UTC (Fri) by grouch (guest, #27289)
In reply to: Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine) by b7j0c
Parent article: Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

"User Agent Switcher - for those blockhead sites still "demanding" IE...only insofar as reading the UserAgent string."

I never cater to such idiotic designs. Unless you absolutely have to have access to such a site, please refuse to distort statistics by altering the UserAgent string. Even then, please email the "webmaster" of such a site and point out that the World Wide Web is supposed to be based on platform-agnostic standards. IE doesn't comply.

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Top 15 Firefox Extensions (PC Magazine)

Posted Feb 18, 2005 16:12 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727) [Link]

If it's a site where you would otherwise spend money, go further; buy elsewhere, at a site that supports your browser. Feel free to tell the site's owners (not the webmaster) how much business they've lost out on by not supporting non-IE browsers.

Web monkeys can win the IE-only argument when they can claim that 90% of people use IE, and the other 10% are insignificant; when management believe that the non-IE users represent a significant spending power, that argument stops holding water. After all, Mercedes-Benz drivers are less than 10% of the cars on the road; it makes very little sense however for a petrol station to turn away Mercedes-Benz drivers.