From: Jonathan Bryce 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.misc
Subject: Re: Co-operative Bank withdraws Internet service for non-Windows business customers
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:35:03 +0000

JF wrote:

> The browser 'Opera' can be tweaked to emulate any presentation face that
> the cruel outside world demands. It can even talk its way into HSBC's
> on-line services.

But not Natwest/Royal Bank of Scotland.
Konqueror or Mozilla masquerading as IE works fine though.

On my site, I have a work-around for IE's lack of standards compliance, and
I can detect Opera pretending to be IE and not apply the fix in these
circumstances. 

Konqueror or Mozilla masquerading as IE isn't so easy to spot so visitors
with this set up will get an IE workaround that makes things worse for
them.