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Offline Billabond1

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« on: April 14, 2005, 03:23:11 PM »
I have a problem here...

as you can see below, microsofts site sucks!  When you look at the site in IE, it has little menus that you can look at.  When you look at it with firefox, there are no menus and the link do not take you anywhere.  Any idea of a way to make it work?


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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2005, 03:46:48 PM »
ya know something! I never noticed that!  I use MS.com all the time and never realized there were supposed to be pull out menus lol

yo, what skin is that?
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2005, 08:04:17 PM »
The skin is called plastikfox crystal svg, it is a skin from linux's kde desktop manager.  

Any idea why there are no arrows there?

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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2005, 09:44:08 PM »
That is very weird I dont know why the arrows arent their you should complain the man on this one. Then not get a response back ever.

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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2005, 09:31:01 PM »
IE does not exactly follow standard HTML specs, so they are using markup that is IE specific, therefore their site only looks 100% proper on IE.

MS has been doing this forever, it's nothing new. There was a big controversy awhile ago because MS allegedly made the msn.com site not display properly on Opera. They were using a browser detection script and loading a different CSS for opera than they were for other browsers (this was long before the firefox explosion). After Opera countered by changing the way their browser was detected, MS altered the site again to make it not work. This went on for about 2 weeks until MS finally relented. It was a whole bunch of underhanded BS from MS.
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