25. June 2003 12:21
While walking past a BT Broadband Internet kiosk I was intrigued to find out what browsers they used. This is useful if you are a web developer, since you want to make sure websites you design work on as many platforms as possible.
After surfing to nikmakris.com and navigating with the TAB key (since the tracker ball wasn't working) I was pleasantly surprised on the speed and usability.
I guessed that they were using a form of Internet Explorer, partly because I know what my site looks like on IE compared to Mozilla and Netscape etc.
On checking my web logs I confirmed my earlier suspicion that BT Broadband phone boxes use IE. In fact they use Internet Explorer 6 on a Windows NT 5.1 platform, (which I believe is Windows XP) they have Javascript enabled and except cookies and with screens of resolution 800x600 and a colour depth of 16, they are more than capable of viewing most sites.
