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Bungleau · 07-15-2005, 04:06 PM

There's a legit reason for this, folks... the web pages may contain things that aren't supported by older browser versions. And many companies don't want to deal with setting up different copies of the page, depending on browser version. I ran into that a while ago... part of the audience for the web site I was developing was using Netscape 4, which didn't support DHTML. IE5 did, and I wanted to use DHTML. And I couldn't force the users to switch...

Firefox does have an extension that you can load which is a user agent switcher. Basically, it lets you tell your Firefox browser to announce itself as something else (IE6, for example). That gets around many of these kinds of messages... unless what you're running just won't run in your browser. I've got a couple of sites where it just won't work, but it does wonders for most of the others.

07-15-2005, 04:06 PM	#7
Bungleau 40th Level Warrior Join Date: October 29, 2001 Location: Western Wilds of Michigan Posts: 11,752	There's a legit reason for this, folks... the web pages may contain things that aren't supported by older browser versions. And many companies don't want to deal with setting up different copies of the page, depending on browser version. I ran into that a while ago... part of the audience for the web site I was developing was using Netscape 4, which didn't support DHTML. IE5 did, and I wanted to use DHTML. And I couldn't force the users to switch... Firefox does have an extension that you can load which is a user agent switcher. Basically, it lets you tell your Firefox browser to announce itself as something else (IE6, for example). That gets around many of these kinds of messages... unless what you're running just won't run in your browser. I've got a couple of sites where it just won't work, but it does wonders for most of the others. __________________ B Save Early, Save Often Save Before, Save After Two-Star General, Spelling Soldiers -+-+-+ Give 'em a hug one more time. It might be the last.