IP: P.S. Re: MSN.COM turns away non-MS browsers, appears to violate ADA

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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