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Browser racism???
jgpaiva:
Ok... Following up on the following message: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=3956.msg27826#msg27826
I'm protesting against browser racism!
How is this possible? In that thread, kimmchii mentioned he could download the file from betanews and i couldn't. The problem was that i was under opera and kimmchii was using firefox. When i tried using ff, it also worked for me.
(notice that this must have been intended, since opera is redirected to another site, and firefox is given the download)
Is this normal, have you ever seen other cases of "browser xenophobia"?
kimmchii:
actually Firefox and IE (and clones) are ok, when i tried Opera i got Access denied, but as soon as i change the UserAgent (via Proxo) in Opera to Firefox or IE, Opera could download fine.
f0dder:
actually Firefox and IE (and clones) are ok, when i tried Opera i got Access denied, but as soon as i change the UserAgent (via Proxo) in Opera to Firefox or IE, Opera could download fine.
-kimmchii (June 09, 2006, 04:49 AM)
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Which means that browser racism is in effect, duh :)
Seems pretty silly of the site to do something like that.
Carol Haynes:
It may be me but I get the impression that since MS released ASP.NET 2.0 there seems to be all sorts of problem - lots of MS pages (and other ASP based sites) don't display properly in Firefox.
Can't help feeling this is deliberate on the part of MS trying to force people back to using Internet Explorer.
Josh:
This "Browser racism" is nothing new. Its existed for years, back when netscape 4 was king. Sites were either designed for MS IE, or netscape, or even sometimes both, leaving out browsers from alternate platforms such as linux, unix, and mac (or even BeOS). I have downloaded windows vista beta 2 from MS with all three browsers, opera, firefox and IE, no problems at all. I am using opera 9 beta 2, firefox 1.5.0.4, and ie 6 sp2.
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