Eric Dorland wrote: > So the user agent thing is fairly well documented at > http://bugs.debian.org/399633, but basically it's our stand against > user-agent insanity. We could of course make it say Firefox easily, > but this certainly seems a bit defeatist. s/defeatist/defeated/ I realized this battle was over when discussion on debian-user revieled that google maps behaved differently in firefox than iceweasel, because it used a firefox-UA specific test to enable a feature (closing the sidebar to make the map take up the full screen). If the top website out there gets it "wrong", the battle is effectively over; "right" or "wrong" no longer really matters (victors write history etc). > I think we should almost > certainly document the workaround better in the README.Debian. Of > course I highly respect Joey's opinion so I'm open to more > convincing. I'm afraid that documenting it in README.Debian won't help desktop users who just find that this strange "iceweasel" browser we install by default doesn't work on sites that firefox works on. -- see shy jo
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