[ILUG] re:Cheapest Linux-friendly components by mail-order

[Gavin McCullagh]

> I'd consider this a fault of the Linux browser and not the website.

Well, yes and no.  There's two issues.  One is working to be w3C
compatible which is not _so_ difficult.  Now fair enough, this doesn't
guarantee linux netscape will render it perfectly, but it helps a
helluvalot.  

The second problem is one of the browser being non-W3C, which all the
largest ones are (ie netscape, IE, even opera of late seems to break
it although mostly due to bugs).  Personally, I think a professional
website should be checked in as many broswers as is possible.  Sure, you
can't ask every joe soap to check his homepage on Mac, Linux.... but
serious sites should at least make some effort to try it on a couple of
other systems.

I'm pissed off with bits of server side code or javascript at the top of
a page which say 

if IE do this {}

else if Netscape do this {}

So I open it in Opera to get a blank page.  No chance to try rendering it, 
nothing.  Recently opera added a piece of functionality which lets you
"lie" and let it identify itself as Netscape/Mozilla/IE for this reason.

> Well, if an OS isn't written on the box then it is assumed that the
> hardware 
> probably isn't compatible with that OS. If by chance it does, you are
> using it 
> for something for which it wasn't intended and the manufacturer has no 
> responsibility whatsoever if anything goes wrong. You can't complain to
> the 
> maker of your car for the problems you get when you fill it with diesel 
> instead of petrol.

Okay, hands up, that was bollox.  But I still hate that stupid winmodem
:(

Gavin