{"id":19,"date":"2005-05-19T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2019-03-18T20:33:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T00:33:48","slug":"your-browser-is-not-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/05\/your-browser-is-not-outdated\/","title":{"rendered":"Your browser is NOT outdated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Netscape 8 was released; so I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netscape.com\/\">Netscape.com<\/a> to download it. I was automatically redirected to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netscape.com\/detourns.adp\">detour page<\/a>, with this message [click on image for the full page]:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/screenshots\/ff-NetscapeDetour.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/screenshots\/ff-NetscapeDetour-cropped.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Firefox 1.0.4. Netscape 8 is <a href=\"http:\/\/browser.netscape.com\/ns8\/security\/alerts.jsp\">based on Firefox 1.0.3<\/a>.<br \/>\nFolks, if you get this message, don&#8217;t believe it. It&#8217;s a lie. The only browser detection script being used is one that checks to see if you are already using Netscape 8.<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of fact, if you&#8217;re using Netscape 8, your browser is outdated. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ilias.ca\/wink_n.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"middle\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Netscape 8 was released; so I went to Netscape.com to download it. I was automatically redirected to a detour page, with this message [click on image for the full page]: I&#8217;m using Firefox 1.0.4. Netscape 8 is based on&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2005\/05\/your-browser-is-not-outdated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,3,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-mozilla","category-mozilla-suite","category-netscape","category-seamonkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}