full-disclosure - Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

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From: blue at ravenconsulting.it (BlueRaven)
Subject: Interesting side effect of the new IE patch

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:54:33PM -0500, Cael Abal wrote:

> It amazes me what sorts of supremely goofy ideas come to fruition --
> http://buy@...t.com ?  That was a horrible idea, and the tech person
> who signed off on it absolutely deserves the wrath of Fiat.

Oh, well... this is just the iceberg's peak.
Try to buy a car on that site and you'll receive a "sorry, you're using a
nerd browser", unless you're using IE.
I tested it with my Mozilla 1.5b and it was classified as "low end browser"
in the URL.
They call it "configurator"... I call it "how to lose potential customers".
;-)
This is what happens when de facto standards are blindly followed.

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BlueRaven

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