Re: Safe Surfing

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 03/21/05

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    In article <wIs%d.291896$0u.114037@fed1read04>,
    Michael J. Pelletier <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> wrote:
    :Cookie Monster wrote:
    :> On the internet various sites can obtain information about peoples
    :> computers such as OS, screen resolution etc etc when surfing.

    :Why? This information is used by web designers to insure that you can
    :properly view the web site. You are making a much bigger deal of it...

    OS and browser information is not being used "to insure that you can
    properly view the web site". OS and browser information is being used to
    cover up for broken html -- if the page doesn't show up correctly
    in some other browser, instead of examining the html to see why, sites
    often just say "Oh, it's the other browsers that are broken and
    you have to use IE because it's the one that does it right."

    I don't know about you, but I get no "enjoyment" at all out of being
    told by a web site that my browser doesn't meet their 'standards'
    "designed" so that everyone gets "full enjoyment" from the site.
    Better than 85% of the time, if I use one of their required browsers
    to pull off the page, and view it using my "so old it's off the radar"
    browser, the page renders either perfectly or acceptably well.
    After, that is, I hand-edit the html to bring it into conformance
    with the HTML standard that the page claims to adhere to.
    There's a large UK-based newswire feed that is particularily bad
    at this: their typical page has over 550 fatal errors according to
    the W3C html validator, but they block out older browsers
    as not providing a good enough "experience". Bah, humbug! 

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