Microsoft tells you where you want to go today.

[Michael]

> I don't think it makes good business sense to allow someone else to
> control the content of your sites.  A page telling someone "Sorry, but I
> cannot allow you to access my site with the version of Internet Explorer
> you're using for these reasons:  Please use an earlier version or a
> different browser" would be a very reasonable response to this type of
> activity.  If you shrug your shoulders and say "I have to accept this,
> there's nothing I can do", you're just guaranteeing that the next
> version of IE after that will have even more unwanted "features" and
> that other browsers will have to try to "catch up" with their own smart
> tags.

At least with the death of commercial browser competition hopefully we can
escape this stupid feature arms race. I highly doubt Mozilla or Konqueror
would bother including such lame features unless people actually like
them. Browsers such as Opera might try but they are usually a little
smarter than that in my experience. *shrugs* Once upon a time I blocked
all .aol.com and .msn.com type users from all my sites just to fight the
evil empires in my own small way but this would hardly be a good choice
for commercial sites and neither is rejecting users of certain
browsers. There are working alternatives to commercial browsers now - if
people don't like what they have they can switch. It isn't my job to force
them to do so. :) It is a pretty screwy idea though. More bullshit from
the people who bring us .NET and $500 programs to edit documents.