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"Hey, if we make Google uglier, maybe people will use Bing!" "Probably not, but let's mess with 'em anyway."

rschmitty 13y ago
Unless it was google.. "Hey, if we make Google uglier, maybe people will use Chrome!" "Probably, they are used to IE not working" Not sure who had the slip-up, but evil works both ways :P
- Yver 13y ago
  > IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings. > Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists". That's the solution posted in that thread. It's an IE problem.
  - sp332 13y ago
    Tweaking Firefox to send the same user-agent string "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0)" causes the exact same problem. It's a Google problem. ETA: In standards mode, IE sends "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko".
    - sounds 13y ago
      Firefox sending "MSIE 10.0" maybe, but not "MSIE 11.0"
- Tobani 13y ago
  It looks like the preview releases of IE11 work fine. MS Changed a default value between preview and release versions. I'm going to choose to apply Hanlon's Razor in this situation. -How often do people who have to do something to detect chrome/firefox version? Unless you are doing something with bleeding-edge experimental APIs probably, never. -How often do people have to do something for a specific version of IE? All the time. Chrome & Firefox have been mostly compatible for the past 20 major versions. IE has yet to make two consecutive versions compatible with each other. Also worth noting: Firefox and Chrome support more versions of Windows than Microsoft's past 3 Browser releases have. Again I don't this is necessarily a distinct case of anybody trying to be evil. This is just a symptom of a bigger problem.
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Coincoin 13y ago
Or rather: "Hey, google.com is still serving up a broken UA detected page that hasn't been working on IE11 for over a month now. Let's do the sensible thing for our release and make it work by adding Google to our list of sites that serves non standard content, because it does exactly that." By not working, I mean, not working at all. If you are lucky it has the whole text you typed and the search button might wake up after 3 or 4 clicks. It is the only site I had problem with using IE11.
- mischanix 13y ago
  Yeah, I played with my UA and google's homepage and I like this explanation better. It's kinda horrifying how broken it is.

Unless it was google.. "Hey, if we make Google uglier, maybe people will use Chrome!" "Probably, they are used to IE not working" Not sure who had the slip-up, but evil works both ways :P

Yver 13y ago
> IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings. > Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists". That's the solution posted in that thread. It's an IE problem.
- sp332 13y ago
  Tweaking Firefox to send the same user-agent string "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0)" causes the exact same problem. It's a Google problem. ETA: In standards mode, IE sends "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko".
  - sounds 13y ago
    Firefox sending "MSIE 10.0" maybe, but not "MSIE 11.0"
Tobani 13y ago
It looks like the preview releases of IE11 work fine. MS Changed a default value between preview and release versions. I'm going to choose to apply Hanlon's Razor in this situation. -How often do people who have to do something to detect chrome/firefox version? Unless you are doing something with bleeding-edge experimental APIs probably, never. -How often do people have to do something for a specific version of IE? All the time. Chrome & Firefox have been mostly compatible for the past 20 major versions. IE has yet to make two consecutive versions compatible with each other. Also worth noting: Firefox and Chrome support more versions of Windows than Microsoft's past 3 Browser releases have. Again I don't this is necessarily a distinct case of anybody trying to be evil. This is just a symptom of a bigger problem.

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Coincoin 13y ago

Or rather: "Hey, google.com is still serving up a broken UA detected page that hasn't been working on IE11 for over a month now. Let's do the sensible thing for our release and make it work by adding Google to our list of sites that serves non standard content, because it does exactly that." By not working, I mean, not working at all. If you are lucky it has the whole text you typed and the search button might wake up after 3 or 4 clicks. It is the only site I had problem with using IE11.

mischanix 13y ago
Yeah, I played with my UA and google's homepage and I like this explanation better. It's kinda horrifying how broken it is.