[Desktop_architects] Re: Proposed meeting output - Desktop Architects Meeting

[Bryce Harrington]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:30:11AM -0800, Tom Welch wrote:
> Mike Shaver wrote:
> >On 21-Nov-05, at 11:38 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> >>>      * Web content
> >>
> >>          - incompatible Javascript / "HTML"
> >
> >Our current data indicates that the amount of web content (not  
> >intranet content) that requires IE is pretty small, though some  
> >painful exceptions remain.  If people are getting other indicators  
> >for desktop use (esp. outside the Enterprise), then I will be  
> >extremely interested in hearing about that.  Either way, I'm happy to  
> >spend some time talking about what we're doing to improve that story  
> >-- and what we're not interested in doing, perhaps more importantly.
> 
> Here are a couple for you.  When running on Linspire with Mozilla 1.6 or 
> Firefox 1.0 you can't browse to the following sites:
> 
> www.oldnavy.com
> www.gap.com

Nor do they work with Firefox 1.5-beta

The first one worked briefly in Konqueror but then I got the same error.
Possibly the site works more or less okay, but they're deliberately
preventing unsupported browsers from viewing it.

Bryce