On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 21:13 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > > I think his point wasn't so much the version number as the name in front > > of it. Websites don't know what Iceweasel is, they do know what Firefox is. > > > I think that such a thing is bad. I understand the purpose behind the > name change. But a browser that claims to be a Firefox-alike should > function as much like Firefox as possible. To me that means not messing > with the useragent string. That sort of thing is generally hidden from > users and not likely to be easy to figure out/fix for many users in the > case of a problem. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1 (Debian-2.0.0.1+dfsg-2) Wow, that's a bigg'un. The User agent string has only had one thing changed. s/Iceweasel/Firefox/ Now, if you are programming for Standards... That wouldn't matter. When you don't and program for only Internet Explorer who cares about Firefox let alone Iceweasel. No care for Galeon, Konqueror, Safari or Opera... It has come down to the fact that Microsoft made a TON of proprietary extensions. Lets let them jam EOOXML down our throats. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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