MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated]

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 25, 2001 @06:28AM from the darn dept.

k_hokanson writes: "I was just going to check out some tasty news articles, with my trusty Mozilla, at MSN. but what do I get when I go there? A nice little message telling me that 'in order to display this page properly', I have to get the latest version of IE! And no, there's no option to display it incorrectly. " Enough people have submitted this story that it can't be an isolated case;) Thanks, Microsoft. Here's the story on Yahoo!. CT: telling konqueror to lie about its User Agent causes the page to render correctly save the background which is the wrong color. Update: 10/25 23:19 GMT by T : kuwan writes "Looks like Microsoft was getting too much heat. CNet is reporting that Microsoft is backing off on their browser block. I'm only wondering how long it will be before they do it again with some other excuse as to why we all need IE."

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In other news by wiredog · 2001-10-25 06:46 · Score: 4, Funny

You need to use AOL's browser to use AOL!

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Re:It's just to fool statistics by crumley · 2001-10-25 06:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Make sure that the form of your user agent string is right. Here's a fun one someone sent to an email list:

lynx -useragent="Mozilla (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0; Bill Gates
eats worms)" www.msn.com

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Re:Workaround.... by iabervon · 2001-10-25 08:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Actually, what makes their story rubbish is that (1) it doesn't accept the W3C HTTP Validator and (2) the splash page doesn't even *pass* the validator.