WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks

Unipuma writes: "Tim Berners-Lee gives his views in an interview with Silicon Valley about the latests blocking of the MSN website for most other than Internet Explorer browsers. 'I have fought since the beginning of the Web for its openness: that anyone can read Web pages with any software running on any hardware. This is what makes the Web itself. This is the environment into which so many people have invested so much energy and creativity. When I see any Web site claim to be only readable using particular hardware or software, I cringe - they are pining for the bad old days when each piece of information need a different program to access it.'"

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MiSsiNg

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Re:Look Beyond, Look Beyond

[bmajik]

have you tried hitting msn with a non IE browser ?

It doesn't let in lynx. Should I try and change my lynx user-agent to lynz ?

i suspect the bit about doing a browserid match on Opera is probably made up - or an incorrect conclusion made from too little experimentation.