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traveller
April 1st, 2006, 09:55 PM
While attempting to visit a site I was "welcomed" with the following message:

"This site is designed for use in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser version 5.0 or greater.
You are not using that browser and have therefore been excluded from viewing this site."

A warm welcome: Excluded... aka persona non grata?

P.S.: And I was using Firefox on XP not Linux...
Stormy Eyes
April 1st, 2006, 09:58 PM
While attempting to visit a site I was "welcomed" with the following message:

"This site is designed for use in Microsoft Internet Explorer browser version 5.0 or greater.
You are not using that browser and have therefore been excluded from viewing this site."

A warm welcome: Excluded... aka persona non grata?

P.S.: And I was using Firefox on XP not Linux...

I think the person responsible for that site wouldn't know good web design if it ambushed him at night and forcibly sodomized him.
Alpha_toxic
April 1st, 2006, 10:02 PM
ha, haven't been "excluded" so far. This is a new way to tell someone to f* off. When will those idiots learn that they are loosing customers this way?

On a second thought - may be the site is mined with sth malicious that will work only on IE, so they just tell you to go away cause they don't need you?
welsh_spud
April 1st, 2006, 10:07 PM
What website was it?
stoeptegel
April 1st, 2006, 10:31 PM
The other way around does also happen:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1338/ihaveie5gb.jpg

But i have more respect for this since it's due to the filosofie that w3c standards are the only way to go. Website that are only allow IE browsers to view it's content are asking to be hacked IMO.
ReiKn
April 1st, 2006, 10:42 PM
Few moths ago the postal service in Finland announced a new recruiting service (http://www.parhaatpostit.fi/). However it seems that they want to hire only people using IE as they state that "at the moment the recruiting system can only be used with an IE browser. For example Firefox doesn't work[...]". Nice design there too...
traveller
April 1st, 2006, 10:48 PM
What website was it?

www.a2zpattaya.com I think...
Stormy Eyes
April 1st, 2006, 11:05 PM
Well, my site (http://www.starbreaker.net) doesn't discriminate. It even accomodates defective browsers like IE.
stoeptegel
April 1st, 2006, 11:26 PM
I've put the browser agent of konqueror on IE and took a look. I am glad that only IE users can watch this terrible stuff :mrgreen:
npodges
April 2nd, 2006, 05:27 AM
www.fold.com is an interesting site, and only supports mozilla firefox (or other standards compliant browsers, i suppose, which naturally doesnt include IE)
BoyOfDestiny
April 2nd, 2006, 05:36 AM
The other way around does also happen:
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1338/ihaveie5gb.jpg

But i have more respect for this since it's due to the filosofie that w3c standards are the only way to go. Website that are only allow IE browsers to view it's content are asking to be hacked IMO.

Damn, they need to use spellcheck... I know it's fun to have a smug message like that, but an ie user that runs into that is going to be thinking they aren't very professional... "Brownser"? I don't care if it's not in their native tongue, use aspell. :P