[lug] Zaurus SL-5500 PDA

Andrew R. Diederich diederic at boulder.net
Mon Mar 25 17:59:37 MST 2002


Hmm, I'm using Opera on win2k.  I wonder what exactly it's checking for.
The funny thing about the two error messages is that just upgrading your
browser won't work, if their site doesn't work with netscape 6.


 On Mon, 25
Mar 2002, rise wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, they have chosen to restrict access by those with
> > anything other than Netscape 4.x or IE.
> 
> Yep, and the idiot marketroid who made that decision is pretty rude about
> it - "Upgrade Your Browser" in umpty-big type.  I don't take orders from
> people trying to sell me a product.  If you look at the source they've
> commented out the HTML that says:
> 
> "The Sharp-USA site uses DHTML and other advanced techniques supported by
> Netscape Version 4 and Internet Explorer Version 4 and above.  We are in
> the process of upgrading so that Netscape Version 6 will be supported.  We
> apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you."
> 
> Now that sounds a little more sane and friendly, I wonder which crack
> weasel decided to remove it from view.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Conway						      rise at knavery.net
> history is paling & my surge protection failed, & so I FRIED
> 						- Concrete Blonde, "Fried"




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