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

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 10 August 2008, Knapp wrote:
>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_l162
>>>>>6r1
>>>>
>>>> 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&st
>>art=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.
>
Tools->user-agent-switcher
>
>--
>Douglas E Knapp
>
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