This is totally evil

[robinturner]

Check out this, yet another Microsoft "innovation", which only lets Internet Explorer 5.* view certain comments. Maybe I'm out of date, though, as I can't be bothered to follow the browser wars any more (as far as I'm concerned, if a site won't display properly in Konqueror - or lynx (!) - it isn't worth looking at).

I've noticed in my attempts to educate myself about Javascript, that there is a way to detect the browser that viewers are using (Konqueror has a nice alias feature to get round this - it can pretend it's Netscape or whatever). Is there any way I could use this to render my pages unviewable in Internet Explorer? OTOH, maybe I should be kinder and use the script to include comments like "I see you're using Internet Explorer. Do you realise what a sap you are?"

Comments

Re: Web standards

[solri.livejournal.com]

Yes, it views OK in Konqueror, which is what I normally use.

Re: Web standards

[arya.livejournal.com]

I use Konqueror, Mozilla for Linux and Mozilla for Mac, and IE for Mac. If there's anything I hate, it's cocksmokers who shit html out their asses with Frontpage and M$ Word. Grrr.

Pardon my language, but nothing gets me angrier than Microshite... arrrgh. And I just watched Jay & Silent Bob on dvd, so that's adding to my vulgarity factor :)

Re: Web standards

[solri.livejournal.com]

Conversely I love it when I come across a page with nice clean HTML, thoughtful use of CSS and tasteful overall design. I was trawling through various philosopher's homepages and noticed how rare it was to find an academic philosopher who is computer-literate. Delia Graff (http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/research/graff) is a refreshing exception (actually has LaTeX and emacs links on one of her pages).