[Discuss] Google Chrome

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

On 7/3/2013 10:39 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> Second. There are several web sites that reject Chrome. In Firefox
>> there is a mode to pretend it is IE. Is there a way in Chrome to fool
>> the site into thinking it is Firefox. (Again, I have not really
>> researched this).
>
> There's a user agent switcher in the Chrome webstore.  Dunnow if it
> works or not. I dumped Chrome because of all the WontFix UI bugs.
>

I'm of two minds on this issue: on the one hand, I don't like Google 
being unwilling to offer compatibility, but OTOH, their marketing savvy, 
coupled with deep pockets and long-term view, allows them to insist that 
Chrome users come to terms with the M$ monopoly on "portable" code, and 
/that/ will mean that the web designers who settled on IE as "good 
enough" will have to redo their code to comply with standards and 
(hopefully) eliminate M$-specific language from the web.

No pain, no gain.


Bill