Re: big brother yahoo
On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck <bro...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> >> I am able to watch videos athttp://video.yahoo.combutthat might
> >> be because I changed general.useragent.extra.firefox to
> >> Firefox/2.0.0.6
>
> > I think the ultimate point is that we shouldn't have to emulate some
> > other software to browse the web.
>
> Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish
> between "Mozilla-style" and "IE-style" browsers, I suppose. I think
> it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a list of the ID
> strings of every single niche browser someone might happen to be using.
Given that the problem is caused by IE-style browsers, which all tend
to identify as IE, why not apply it to IE only instead?
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