In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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wrote
on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:42:47 +0100
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> Verily I say unto thee, that chrisv spake thusly:
>> AHappyCamper <@thelandfill.com> wrote:
>
>>> Most users of other OSes have their non-IE browser report that it
>>> is IE,
>>
>> Well, I don't know about "most". Is there really any need for that,
>> these days? Seems to me very counter-productive - if you're using
>> Firefox, you should let the world know.
>
> Yes, in fact there are some sites where falsely proclaiming to be "MSIE"
> can be a distinct /disadvantage/:
>
> http://slated.org/killbillsbrowser.html
>
Um....is it me, or is that website extremely confused?
Then again, I could see servers redirecting thereto if
they do detect an IE header -- which presumably is its purpose.
An attempt to reference http://slated.org/ from IE resulted
in a redirect to this webpage. (Good for them!)
Using Mozzie rewarded me with a story about Bungie losing
out to Microsoft after releasing Halo 3 (ick), and a
response to an opinion piece from Michael Gartenberg,
refuting his claims about "Linux not being ready for the desktop".
Dillo also showed the same webpage -- though in its own
rather naive fashion. For some reason my homebrew Java
JEditorPane affair got a 403 response. Par for the course,
presumably.
("Linux not ready for the desktop"? Are they kidding?
The notion of a "desktop" is so mucked up anyway. The idea
was originally that for an information terminal; look at
old sci-fi for some ideas. The best one I can think of
is Arthur C. Clarke's iconic 2001 series (written in 1968;
the film came out 5 years later), suggesting a "Newspad",
which is very close to a modern webpage -- about the
only thing Mr. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick got right;
most of the rest of their predictions fell slightly short
(along with the Berlin Wall). But oh well. Where did a
"desktop" get "innovated"?)
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