Re: [NTLK] [OT] We're Idiots

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 16:46:48 PDT


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:10:52PM -0500, John M Powell wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2003, John M Powell wrote:
> >
> > > Apology accepted. 1899 people to go. ;-)
> >
> > Perhaps the greater lesson here is that people should install
> > browsers like Safari and Mozilla/Netscape. Why anyone would
> > want to embed a gaping security exploit like IE on their
> > computer is beyond me.
>
> Because I design (well, try to anyway) websites. And generally
> my stats show on average, 75% of the people use IE.

ITYM 75% of people use browsers that CLAIM to be IE, for one reason or
another.

(Just back from yet another site that "requires IE 6.0 or better",
refuses entry to those that don't send back the happy user agent string,
yet works perfectly fine if I tell Opera to lie.)

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44. I will only employ bounty hunters who work for money. Those who work for 
    the pleasure of the hunt tend to do dumb things like even the odds to give 
    the other guy a sporting chance.
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