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Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String
Billly Gates writes "With the new leaked videos and screenshots of Windows Blue released, IE 11 is also included. IE 10 just came out weeks ago for Windows 7 users and Microsoft is more determined than ever to prevent IE from becoming irrelevant as Firefox and Chrome scream past it by also including a faster release schedule. A few beta testers reported that IE 11 changed its user agent string from MSIE to IE with the 'like gecko' command included. Microsoft may be doing this to stop web developers stop feeding broken IE 6-8 code and refusing to serve HTML 5/CSS 3 whenever it detects MSIE in its user agent string. Unfortunately this will break many business apps that are tied to ancient and specific version of IE. Will this cause more hours of work for web developers? Or does IE10+ really act like Chrome or Firefox and this will finally end the hell of custom CSS tricks?"
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your boss sounds like a total opportunistic douche.
<!--[if lte IE 9]>We have detected that you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer which may be running the plugin called StealYourCreditCardInformation.virus.B. That plugin tends to break the layout you see on our site because our site is very secure and that plugin can not operate on our site. If things look broken, we suggest you uninstall that plugin, or use a good web-browser like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera.<![endif]-->
That goes on the top of the page. I then go out of my way to make use of all CSS that triggers IE-specific bugs.
This affected all 17 Opera users, especially the 3 of those that actually went to MSN.com...
Dung shui?
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