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Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?



Hi Andrew.

Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote:
>>>> Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from
>>>> "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5".
>>> Worked like a treat, thanks!!
>>>
>>>> Then web sites won't be able to tell the difference, and FWIW you
>>>> should report the web site to it's owners as broken. User-agent
>>>> detection is broken behavior.
>>> I feel it's the website not knowing the browser, hense, unable to render
>>> the page properly. Thanks.
>>>
>> Not to get all gripey or anything, but there are web standards for precisely 
>> this reason. See http://www.w3.org
> 
> Having just put together my first real webpage (still pretty basic)
> let me tell you (I'm sure you know) its a royal PITA. I've had to make
> an extra stylesheet just for stupid IE and then put a check for IE in
> the headers.

No good solution, since headers can be manipulated at will. You better use
Conditional Comments[0] which only IE’s > 5.0 understand.


Regards, Mathias


[0] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512.aspx

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