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Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/
If I ever encounter that, I'll be sure not to return. On Digg someone
mentioned that www.jacklewis.net (apparently some blog, I don't care)
uses it and it did indeed redirect. The funny thing was that it was
more insidious (and stupid) than a mere User-agent check. No, they
check if the JavaScript implementation has a document.all property.
This is stupid for so many reasons that I don't know where to start.
Well, for one if this catches on, the Firefox developers will just put
in a dummy element. Until then, it can be filtered in various ways
(squid proxy comes to mind). But how clever is it to rely on a
nonstandard implementation? What happens the day IE drops the support
for document.all (which it is generally recommended that one does not
use)? It'll essentially turn into one big ad *for* Firefox and AdBlock
(in that IE users may not have been aware of it before). And what about
other standards compliant browsers? I just checked with Konqueror and
it got redirected as well. Presumably, since it is built on the same
framework, Safari will get targeted as well. What a nice big f*** you
to the Mac users, eh? :-)
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Word is a fine tool when you don't need your output to look identical on
every machine that might use it. -- Erik Funkenbusch, Microsoft apologist
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