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"Sorry. Web page looks messed up with Mozilla browser." Or something to that effect.
Tee Hee,
If it is really as bad as you make out do you NEED to tell your visitors (I would have guessed they would have worked it out already)? I would think you'd best spend your time working out how to fix you rendering issues. Alternatively you could look into redirecting Mozilla users to an un-marked up text only version of the page in the meantime.
Best of luck.....
Mozilla usage is increasing due to publicity about IE's security issues and the CERT recommendation.
Why not take your time and fix the worst problems as time allows? I think blocking Mozilla is rather a drastic move.
Jim
I think blocking Mozilla is rather a drastic move.I'd second that, especially if we are talking about the site in your profile.
I can't imagine that Mozilla would break the your tab layouts unless the user was overriding your font selection with a none monospaced one.
It would not be as bad if half of the banks and other "important" sites didn't seem to follow the same PATHETIC logic.
Sorry dude, but you hit a nerve here :)
Also, as a mozilla user, the worst thing - almost an insult - is those pages saying "sorry, this page is intended for IE", especially as i know that i'll always be able to see the content i'm after (unless it's one of those plugins that i've deliberately chosen not to install, but i've got IE for that type of stuff.)
So, i'd say that your worries (whatever they are) might not be shared by the mozilla users at all, although you think so.
[edited by: claus at 2:04 am (utc) on Sep. 25, 2004]
(Kinda strange, for an industry that has grown up in less than 10 years from next-to-nothing for so many people to believe that the future was fixed forever).
And now (at least for the forseeable future), IE-usage is likely to drop to a point that makes a measurable difference to many website owners.
So, a good question is "My site ony works in IE, what can I do about it?
But I'm not sure a good solution in most cases is: "Huddle in close and ignore the rest of the world"
But, if it's what you want to do, sniff and ban by user-agent id. It won't be perfect, because (as already stated) Firefox/Mozilla/Opera have or can have user-settable UA ids. But if it maks you happy....
But the site is still browsable, things just look out of place. But I guess that's better than completely blocking people.
Maybe I can redirect to a page that says "This site may not look correctly with the mozilla browser, but you still may browse if you wish, click here to enter."
To just warn them, the site will look weird, and we're aware of it, but still give them the option to come in.
Hey, if you always see it with the moz browser, how would you know that it should be displayed in another way than it is?
To a person using the moz browser it is displaying correctly, although it might not look like it does in IE - but still, those users (me included) will never know the difference, as they simply don't (wish to) see the IE version. They're not likely to switch to the IE browser just to see a page displayed a bit differently.
So, by putting that page up, you're essentially just displaying a nag screen although you don't really have to.
I haven't tried it in IE because I'm not surfing with IE any more. But I don't see anything that looks totally OOP in Firefox. In fact, your site design is nice n clean, fast loading, easy to navigate....
