Me too! My goodness – I can think of three possible reasons:
1. either Firebird is deemed to be a better browser than when I raised the issue with them
2. M+S realise just who you are (“do you know who I am?”) and have decided that your opinion is valid.
3. The M+S webdev team got hit by a large hammer, which knocked some sense into them…
I guess it’s quite possible that a few emails generated by this post added to ones sent by people like yourself earlier, highlighted the fact that people are actually using these other browsers – and for everyone that complained there are likely to be far more who just went away.
If the designers had said that it wasn’t worth supporting these browsers because no-one uses them, then a reasonable number of complaints from users of the browsers is going to disprove that! I do think it is worth emailing companies and letting them know, just for this reason.
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I’m in too… Go Rach! Challanger of the mighty!
Well… I’m in too. So it seems Rachel has more power than she thinks!
Works for me in Firebird whatever I set user agent too, and I looking at the source of the page I see no test for user agent.
Me too! My goodness – I can think of three possible reasons:
1. either Firebird is deemed to be a better browser than when I raised the issue with them
2. M+S realise just who you are (“do you know who I am?”) and have decided that your opinion is valid.
3. The M+S webdev team got hit by a large hammer, which knocked some sense into them…
I kind of like the hammer theory … 🙂
I guess it’s quite possible that a few emails generated by this post added to ones sent by people like yourself earlier, highlighted the fact that people are actually using these other browsers – and for everyone that complained there are likely to be far more who just went away.
If the designers had said that it wasn’t worth supporting these browsers because no-one uses them, then a reasonable number of complaints from users of the browsers is going to disprove that! I do think it is worth emailing companies and letting them know, just for this reason.