Re: MSFT Chicanery

Safari Enhancer allows such customization for Safari on a Mac.
http://www.celestialfrontiers.com/safari_enhancer.php

It's useful for accessing sites that incorrectly insist on IE, which
is essentially obsolete on a Mac. Many (but not all) sites that
require IE work with Safari masquerading as IE through use of Safari
Enhancer.

Best regards,
Arthur

At 1:11 PM -0700 9/21/07, Alan Dechert wrote:
>Actually, it works fine with FireFox. It also works fine with a Mac. The
>point is, they are lying and spreading FUD about non-MSFT products.
>
> > As a practical matter, if homelink is barring access to sites unless one
>> has a IE browser, then you can use a browser like Opera that allows one to
>> spoof (pretend to be IE) the server to get in.
>>
>> It's a shame they do that.
>>
>> Another possibility is that the site uses some sort of plug-in that only
> > works in IE. In that case they might be right that it only works with IE.

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