[ale] Loading Veritas.com???

Irv Mullins irvm at ellijay.com
Fri Feb 22 11:08:21 EST 2002


On Friday 22 February 2002 10:38 am, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I'm running Debian Sid with latest Konqueror browser.  I type in
> www.veritas.com and hit enter.  It displays 99% of the page then blows
> out to an error saying I need an HTML 4.0 compliant browser and gives me
> links to Netscape and IE...
>
> Is Konqueror not 4.0 compliant?  I tried to set the emulation to IE 5.5
> on 2k, netscape 4.76 on Windows, etc.  Nothing works.  This is the Only
> site where I get such an error.
>
> Thoughts other than loading netscape?  It's already loading.

I think this is just the result of a dimly-lit programmer:
If I use Opera, set to id itself as IE, it works just fine.
The same browser, set to id as Opera, gets me the error message.
Probably it doesn't check for HTML 4.0 compatibility at all, 
just for the name IE or Netscape.

Regards,
Irv

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