[Info-vax] : Re: OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

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In article <00273837$0$2224$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>>>http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
>>>http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
>
>
>> No info on where and how these stats were collected?
>
>http headers is how. Big question is "where". If you use the Microsoft
>web site, then you will get a very low number of non Windows users.
>
>And this does not take into account that non windows platforms often
>have to lie about their OS in order to access certain web sites.
>
>For instance, Bell Canada (who has some sort of alliance with Microsoft)
>at one point simply refused access to those not running Explorer on
>Windows. So a Mac user would just change the "personality" in a drop
>down menu to send the Windows/Explorer identity in the HTTP request.

I've had to do this same thing for too many web sites.  I'd then send
off scathing letters to the webmaster denouncing the practice.  I do
not believe that Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee intended for the World
Wide Web to become the Micro$haft Myopic Mesh!

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