Re: [PLUG] interesting experiment

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

The site checks the browser and sends "more w3c like code" to non-IE 
browsers.  It sends proprietary MSHTML to IE.

Doubt its a conspiracy, and don't think the intent is that it be 
crappier.  Just that MS Visual Studio, most likely used to create the 
site, is weak at doing things w/o the proprietary tags.

art

William Shank wrote:

> using konqueror (i'm using kde2.2.2, but i don't know how much it matters)
> go to http://www.msnbc.com and observe the formatting. Now, under the tools
> menu, select Change Broswer Identification --> IE 5.5 on Windows 2000.
> reobserver the formatting. notice anything?
>
> what do you think is causing this discrepency? i'm certain the rendering
> engine isn't changed to be more compatible with IE based html. So does this
> mean that konqueror handles IE html better than other html? is the site
> sending crappy html to non-ie browsers on purpose? is this poor quality
> assurance? is there a conspiracy?
>
> -chris
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