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Date:	Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:57:38 PDT7
From:	jbrush@aros.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: A basic browser display question

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>> You go to a website, and the pages (possibly tailored for Internet
>> Exploiter ??) are an unreadable black text against a blackk b.g., or
>> something along those lines. Isn't there some way of changing the
>> display at your end, in real time, so that it becomes readable ? How
>> ?

>Why would you want to do anything?

>If they want to restrict their business by excluding some users why do
>business with them? If a web site does not display because it is written for
>IE only that web site will never see me again. I will not take the time to
>convert their web pages because it is obvious to me that they don't want my
>business.

Absolutely true, except:

Not everything on the internet is optional, fun, shopping where one can just
walk away and go somewhere else. Sometimes that is the page that has the
information you need and there are no choices by to complain loud and long,
and then use IE to get what you need.

Sometimes life doesn't allow us choices.

A note to the webmaster is a waste of time, but often you can find sales
contacts, or executives and calmly inform the of the situation. If you point
out to a sales person that they are loosing sales because some kid with a copy
of Front Page is playing God with the storefront, you would be surprised at
the results you can obtain :-)

John

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