Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working
On 2009/04/29 10:26 (GMT-0400) Barclay, Daniel composed:
> Eric Gerlach wrote:
>> The User Agent String strikes again.
>> I just had to change my UA string from "Iceweasel" to "Firefox" and all was
>> well.
> Wait a minute. Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just changing
> the software name (the name used to identify the software to humans, relevant
> to the Mozilla licensing issue) and also change the _technical_ behavior,
> reducing compatibility?
> Does the Mozilla license really require Debian to change the user agent string?
> If it really does, could the string be structured something like
> "Iceweasel (Firefox compatible)" so that at least some user-agent sniffing
> will recognize Iceweasel as the Firefox browser the web site already knows?
All web sites that sniff for Firefox are broken. You should complain to the
webmaster every time you find one, and file a mozilla.org bug if one for that
site does not already exist:
http://www.geckoisgecko.info/
http://bclary.com/blog/2006/04/21/browser-detection-part-duh-will-they-ever-learn/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334967
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