{"id":4102,"date":"2003-02-05T15:09:42","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T20:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2003-02-05T15:09:42","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T20:09:42","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/05\/oops.html","title":{"rendered":"Oops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Oh, I&#8217;m sorry &#8212; did I knock that over?  My bad.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Micro$oft, which last year tried to block all non-IE browsers from viewing its MSN site, seems to be at it again, sending visitors that are using the Opera browser <a title=\"Opera cries foul against MSN--again - Tech News - CNET.com\" href=\"http:\/\/msnbc-cnet.com.com\/2100-1023-983500.html?type=pt&#038;part=msnbc&#038;tag=alert&#038;form=feed&#038;subj=cnetnews\">broken stylesheets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CSS stylesheet sent to Opera users doesn&#8217;t work correctly under Opera.  Nor, for that matter, does it work under IE.  The one sent to IE users, though, works fine with both IE and Opera.  <a href=\"http:\/\/people.opera.com\/howcome\/2003\/2\/msn\/\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s some analysis and examples of what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>M$ denied there was any problem.  &#8220;Why would we every try to break someone else&#8217;s browser?  The very idea!&#8221; said M$ spokesperson Gohna DeVour.  &#8220;We&#8217;ll look at that right away, you betcha.  In the meantime, maybe you&#8217;d like to try a complementary copy of IE6?&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>When asked about critics who suggest that if MSN only used standard web language structures, it wouldn&#8217;t need to send out different stylesheets to different browsers, DeVour had to flee the room, stifling laughter as he went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, I&#8217;m sorry &#8212; did I knock that over? My bad. 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