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Weight Watchers, Lose the Browser Load

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004 at 5:41 PM Category: Meryl's Notes Blog 4 comments

If you try to go to WeightWatchers.com with FireFox 0.9x or Mozilla 1.7, you get a lovely message to upgrade your browser to not only IE 6.x or higher, but also Netscape 7.x or higher (For Macs: IE 5.x+ and Safari 1.1+). Netscape is based on the gecko engine, which is what Mozilla and FireFox are based on. The company needs to lose browser weight.

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4 comments

Posted by Porter on July 14th, 2004, 1:34 PM
Not at all surprisingly, spoofing Firefox’s user agent string to one of the “accepted” browsers to sneak past the bouncer at the door shows a site with not even one rendering glitch.
Posted by Alex on July 20th, 2004, 10:13 AM
Ironically, people browsing with IE should upgrade to Firefox, as it is a much better browser. Those browsing with Netscape, should realize that it’s not 20th century anymore.
Posted by David Bisset on July 20th, 2004, 10:33 AM
Posted this myself and there are additional comments and feedback (good job meryl, btw):

http://www.flex-mx.com/archives/001004.html
Posted by mark on July 21st, 2004, 6:30 PM
hehe – that’s hillarious!