[WEB4LIB] More MS sabatoge of Netscape?

[John Hambleton, Academic Information Services]

Yes. I've long suspected that MickeySoft detects Netscape Browsers
and the user gets "walked around the park".
Paranoia? One wonders.
Mr. H 


At 09:27 AM 8/25/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Has anyone else experienced difficulty viewing Microsoft sites with
>Netscape browsers?  I have Netscape 4.61 and it keeps loosing it on the
>MSNBC web site.  Specifically, I loose the ability to click on hypertext
>links (I can click, but the new page isn't opened), and closing and
>re-opening the browser doesn't solve the problem--I have to restart the PC.
> I do have the necessary MS plugins for this site.
>
>Also, earlier in the summer, one day I suddenly lost the ability to search
>the Microsoft support site --the pull down menus and text entry boxes just
>didn't appear on the screen.  That seems to be resolved, for now, by
>upgrading to the latest version of Netscape.
>
>Does anyone have any information about known bugs with Netscape and MS ASP
>pages?  Since Microsoft seems to be providing ever more content on the Web,
>if it is a purposely built in incompatibility, it would seem users are
>forced to use Internet Explorer to view these sites.  Of course this poses
>a problem for libraries--the choices seem to be, just use IE on public
>terminals, or constantly upgrade Netscape as these incompatibilities are
>discovered.
>
>Last, it seems disingenous to me for Microsoft to be making a case for
>"open standards" when it comes to instant messaging at the same time as
>they are constantly thwarting HTML standards.
>
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>University Library
>California State University, Sacramento
>abramson at libraryserver.lib.csus.edu
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