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From: Chris Ridd on 13 Mar 2010 10:01
On 2010-03-13 10:51:10 +0000, Woody said:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-03-13 09:19:02 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:
>>
>>> Until last night, Google worked perfectly well on all my browsers, this
>>> morning I find I have to turn off Javascript in iCab 3.0.5 to get it to
>>> work, although it will still work with Javascript switched on in iCab
>>> 2.9.9 and Mozilla 1.3.
>>>
>>> What have they changed?
>>
>> They recently dropped support for IE 6. Can you make your browsers
>> behave like something more recent?
>
> Although they dropped support for IE6, they didn't actually change
> anything did they? They are just not bothering to check on IE6.

They're removing code that made it do stuff on IE 6 (AIUI) not just
removing checks.
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From: Chris Ridd on 13 Mar 2010 10:04
On 2010-03-13 13:01:54 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:

> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-03-13 09:19:02 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:
>>
>>> Until last night, Google worked perfectly well on all my browsers, this
>>> morning I find I have to turn off Javascript in iCab 3.0.5 to get it to
>>> work, although it will still work with Javascript switched on in iCab
>>> 2.9.9 and Mozilla 1.3.
>>>
>>> What have they changed?
>>
>> They recently dropped support for IE 6. Can you make your browsers
>> behave like something more recent?
>
> I've switched its identity from iCab to Netscape and now its working
> again (it also works as Opera). Why have they gone to the trouble to
> identify and exclude iCab?

I doubt iCab even figures on their radar! There's probably some code
path that executes only when it "looks" like ancient versions of
Netscape, that allows iCab to work.
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From: Adrian Tuddenham on 13 Mar 2010 10:46
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:

> On 2010-03-13 13:01:54 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:
>
> > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2010-03-13 09:19:02 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:
> >>
> >>> Until last night, Google worked perfectly well on all my browsers, this
> >>> morning I find I have to turn off Javascript in iCab 3.0.5 to get it to
> >>> work, although it will still work with Javascript switched on in iCab
> >>> 2.9.9 and Mozilla 1.3.
> >>>
> >>> What have they changed?
> >>
> >> They recently dropped support for IE 6. Can you make your browsers
> >> behave like something more recent?
> >
> > I've switched its identity from iCab to Netscape and now its working
> > again (it also works as Opera). Why have they gone to the trouble to
> > identify and exclude iCab?
>
> I doubt iCab even figures on their radar! There's probably some code
> path that executes only when it "looks" like ancient versions of
> Netscape, that allows iCab to work.

Whatever happened to HTML and standardisation?

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From: zoara on 13 Mar 2010 11:21
Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2010-03-13 13:01:54 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:
> >
> > > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 2010-03-13 09:19:02 +0000, Adrian Tuddenham said:
> > >>
> > >>> Until last night, Google worked perfectly well on all my
> > > > > browsers, this
> > >>> morning I find I have to turn off Javascript in iCab 3.0.5 to
> > > > > get it to
> > >>> work, although it will still work with Javascript switched on in
> > > > > iCab
> > >>> 2.9.9 and Mozilla 1.3.
> > >>>
> > >>> What have they changed?
> > >>
> > >> They recently dropped support for IE 6. Can you make your
> > > > browsers
> > >> behave like something more recent?
> > >
> > > I've switched its identity from iCab to Netscape and now its
> > > working
> > > again (it also works as Opera). Why have they gone to the trouble
> > > to
> > > identify and exclude iCab?
> >
> > I doubt iCab even figures on their radar! There's probably some code
> >
> > path that executes only when it "looks" like ancient versions of
> > Netscape, that allows iCab to work.
>
> Whatever happened to HTML and standardisation?
>

When did that ever happen? I certainly missed it if it did.

-z-

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From: Ben Shimmin on 13 Mar 2010 12:49
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net>:
> Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:

[...]

>> Whatever happened to HTML and standardisation?
>
> When did that ever happen? I certainly missed it if it did.

Mid-nineties. Only about seven people were interested, though. Everyone
else was more interested in <MARQUEE> and <BLINK>.

b.

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