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SPLF: Browser Support

This web site is designed for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x and above and Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.7 and above on a PC and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 and above and Netscape Navigator/Communicator 4.7 and above on the Apple Macintosh.

Other browsers may work fine but are not recommended or supported.

But you never get a chance to see how well supported a browser is: if you try to use anything but one of the ones mentioned, you get this polite but frustrating page. And the supported browsers are 5 years old: an eternity in the internet age.

Of course, Galeon will permit you to change your user agent string. So I just impersonated Mozilla circa 1997 and got right in.

Nothing looked amiss nor did Galeon fail to render anything correctly. It’s a nice looking site, and from all accounts, would benefit from a wider audience: beats me why they want to keep people out of it.