A small victory: One less IE-only site.

Posted January 17th, 2008 by ottodv

Some time ago, Ken pointed me to a site (Axialis) where he could only download from with IE. I looked at it and found that there was a very simple way to get to the downloads without IE, it just required you to piece together the download URL yourself. So I wrote a small userscript for Greasemonkey that simply replaced their IE-only function with another that pieced together the proper URL. I then posted it on userscripts.org.

Today I was contacted by someone from Axialis, who had found my userscript and decided to change their page using my function (which works for all browsers), he thanked me and even gave me a free license!

I was positively surprised by their reaction and very happy that there is now one less IE-only site on the web.

- Otto

The Power of Greasemonkey

On January 18th, 2008 LouCypher says:

Reminds me of Lickr.

-LouCypher

or...

On January 17th, 2008 stormbringer says:

...you could use the IE Tab addon.

I can't

On January 17th, 2008 ottodv says:

IE tab doesn't work on Mac or Linux.

Besides the point of the story is that the site is now accessible to all browsers on all OSes without requiring any add-on or userscript.

- Otto - SOS

RE: Or....

On January 17th, 2008 JustZisGuy says:

Unless you are using a Mac, or Linux, or another system without IE, or IE isn't configured for web access, or you happen to be an average user who wouldn't know how to add that and rightly expects everything to "just work".