[Novalug] Administrivia: don't use URL shorteners
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org
Sat Jan 24 06:58:38 EST 2015
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:40:48AM -0500, Dan Arico via Novalug wrote:
> What about government sites like the IRS? A lot of business filings
> have to be done on-line and a lot of them require not only Adobe but
> also IE for access.
Yes, there are sites like that, designed and built by ineducable morons
who have failed to grasp even the first principles of the web. I could
say (I have said ) a lot of snarky things about that, but today, let me
just quote this guy:
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X'
label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days,
before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a
document written on another computer, another word processor,
or another network."
-- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
Quoted here:
Viewable with Any Browser: Campaign
http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/
In practice, such sites nearly always work with sensible web browsers
and open-source PDF software. The ones that don't can nearly always
be fooled via:
User Agent Switcher
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
---rsk
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