Stupid Web Sites
19 Jun 2006Try visiting Hilton Hotels‘ website with any browser other than IE, Netscape 7 or Firefox 1.0. Argh! It dumps you on a “Web Standards” page and you can’t leave it unless you use one of the “approved” browsers.
I haven’t tried it with any handheld browsers, so if you do, please, post a comment about the results.
Anyway, sites like that are yet another reason why I love Konqueror. It took just 10 seconds to tell Konqueror to pretend to be Firefox 1.0 (on Linux, of course) whenever it connects to “hilton.com”. Presto! No trouble at all. In fact, the whole site renders perfectly.
I\’m not at all fond of sites that do that, but in this case I probably would never have noticed if you hadn\’t pointed it out. I tried the site in every browser I have installed on my main computer (a Mac), and all of them worked fine. (This in spite of the fact that Safari isn\’t listed as one of the options on the \”Web Standards\” page you linked.)