Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility
Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:05:47PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:45:04PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:43:19AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
>>>> John Goerzen wrote:
>>>>> Firefox/x.y.z Iceweasel/x.y.z
>>> Sounds too Firefoxy.
>> What's the problem with that? I thought Iceweasel *was* Firefox for all
>> practical purposes, modulo branding and usual distribution patches.
>>
>> Did we actually seriously fork Firefox since the rename?
>
> Simply putting Firefox like that in the UA can sound like it is
> Firefox. And we still don't have the right to use the Firefox name on
> something that doesn't bear the Firefox logo.
What is this "sound like"? We're talking about a technical string that
is overall parsed by machines, not humans. What we need is something
that machines can parse in an expected way.
> I'd rather avoid yet another trademark issue, and if the (like
> Firefox/x.y) works as well, it's safer to go that way.
Some initial testing suggests that it helps -- I'd much rather see that
than nothing, but I suspect it is not as good as the Flock approach, for
instance. If it works for them, surely it would work for us.
-- John
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