Question:
I need some particularly bad examples of sites which refuse to
display on browsers other than IE, or at least with Opera. The
more popular the better, and preference is for US-based sites.
I have an argument I need some backup data for. Someone
who knows better asserts they've never seen a page which
refused to work with anything but IE. I know better, but I'm
not in the habit of bookmarking such stupid sites for obvious
reasons, I usually just leave in disgust..
Answer:
-Here's someone's personal resume created with Microsoft Word:
http://home.earthlink.net/
Another IE-only page (nothing displayed in Opera or Mozilla):
http://www.remembertheastronauts.com/
-Needless to say, lots of Microsoft sites don't work right with
Opera, and I've always suspected most of them were done that way
on purpose.
For example - what is the justification for the following page
having all the text truncated at the left margins? Another case
of Opera being fed an intentionally screwed-up style-sheet?
-The main part looks fine in Opera as long as you ID as MSIE 6. Otherwise,
the servserside browsersniffing adds link to stylesheets named
'netscape.css' and 'ie3.css'. The file 'netscape.css' contains code to
workaround NN4's broken CSS, and "ul {margin-left:-2.5em;}" has disastrous
effects on browsers that get CSS right... The file 'ie3.css' does not exist
and gets a 404.
When you ID as Opera, you get the faulty stylesheets, but also an
alternative Table of Contents in the left frame. The site assumes that
Netscape 4 can't understand ActiveX. That part is true at least, IDing as
MSIE you don't get a working ToC in the left frame...
