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Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera
An anonymous reader writes "The Register has a story that the MSN homepage serves a different style sheet to the Opera web browser that makes Opera appear to be broken. Is this deliberate or a mistake? Who can possibly say? Opera's own take on the situation can be found here." This is not the first time.
Anyone who *doesn't* write a site that serves seperate pages to different browsers is doing a disservice to the public. Most are too lazy or too apathetic to do so however.
The most obvious case in point being Lynx.
For various reasons ( including access to the reading disabled) every site should, at the very least, serve a different page to pure text browsers than it does to graphical browsers.
The whole *point* of identifying browsers at all is to allow the server to serve optimized pages for different browsers.
Anyone who writes a site that takes advantage of this to deliberately make certain browsers look like shit is a shithead.
KFG
I am sure there are few that actually type msn.com and go there, but I am forced to go because I have a hotmail account and I can't seem to hit the stop button fast enough before I am pushed into msn.com. So, I don't see this as FUD, but instead more of Microsoft's tactics to do away with competition. If the page doesn't load then people will start using IE. Right?