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IP: P.S. Re: MSN.COM turns away non-MS browsers, appears to violate ADA
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:50:44 -0400
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:33:25 -0600 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org> Dave:Just took a machine running the Opera 5.12 Web browser (which is fully W3C-compliant) and installed it behind a proxy server. I then programmed the proxy server to replace Opera's browser identification string with that normally emitted by MSIE 6.0. Contrary to Microsoft's claim that "the browser that you are using will not render MSN.com correctly," Opera rendered the site perfectly -- and more quickly than MSIE.--Brett Glass
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