October 17, 2004
Browsing with Netscape UNKNOWN
There's been more web standards buzz about the recent redesign of ABC News (with the help of Mike Davidson) and the new Yahoo look. I tried to use the new "my yahoo" pages at home and was greeted with the following screen:
It's hard to read but this is what it says: "You are currently using Netscape UNKNOWN . For the best experience using Yahoo!, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Netscape." Then they offer a link to download Netscape 7.2. It's bad enough to use browser sniffing, but browser sniffing that doesn't recognize Safari is just ridiculous. The whole point if embracing web standards is so that you wouldn't have to do silly stuff like this.
Update 10/19/2004: The error message is gone now and the page doesn't seem to render any differently. I suppose they simply improved their sniffing.
Posted by Matthew at October 17, 2004 11:16 PM