NBC will not play video for linux!! Time for a lettering?

[Knapp]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Willy Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/8/10 Steve Grace <sgrace at pobox.com>:
>>> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 18:20 +0200, Knapp wrote:
>>>> http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=0810_hd_swb_hl_l1626r1
>>>
>>> Did you notice that it's a Microsoft page?  :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Apparently, microsoft still hates us.
>>
>> not that i expected otherwise :-P
>>
>>
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>
> I found this about that site, here:
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=752485&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15
>
> Confirmed with a 'real' Firefox Install ... Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux
> i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1 ID:2008072820
> Won't let me in at all....
>
> Hah.. I have found the reason .. the site is using SILVERLIGHT, which
> is still not available for Linux (Its still only in development)
>
> Silverlight is still flaky for Firefox 3, and I am not sure if it
> works in SeaMonkey (It should really, as SeaMonkey is Gecko 1.8.*)
>
> I think this has been mentioned elsewhere...
> Stop it steviex , I can only use one of your quotes as a signature at
> a time - malliz
> Please DO NOT PM me for support... Lets keep it on the board, so we
> can all learn.
>

How do you get firefox to say it is MSIE ?? It is easy with konqueor
and it gets past that message but then crashes.


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