On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:29:57PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > 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/ > My mistake. I took it that the string went from only "Firefox/2.0.0.1" to "Iceweasel/2.0.0.1". > Now, if you are programming for Standards... That wouldn't matter. > True, plenty of "IE-based" browsers do something similar. > 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... > Please don't even get me started on this. My university just switched to a product for vieweing web-based broadcasts of classes that has absolutely the most brain-dead browser detection/lockout I have ever seen. > It has come down to the fact that Microsoft made a TON of proprietary > extensions. > > Lets let them jam EOOXML down our throats. Meh. They'll do what they want and people will still gladly line to to fork over a bunch of money and take it up the tailpipe. > -- > 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 That sig made me laugh harder than I've laughed in quite a long time. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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