On 8/31/07, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:18:31AM -0400, Adam L. Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > And what next ? Add "like Safari/3.0", "like Opera/9.0" whenever that > becomes necessary ? Let's just stop the user agent madness.
Not sure I follow... add them to IceWeasel? Certainly not. Your browser isn't forked off Safari or Opera source code, is it? The community's persistent requests to add Firefox to the IceWeasel user agent isn't about cloaking, the way IE and Opera might use Mozilla or Gecko keywords, it's about showing the browser's true origins -- consistent with the HTTP spec, I believe. Yeah, the whole user agent thing is ugly, but substituting a keyword in user-agent is just not logical. By your logic, you shouldn't have added IceWeasel to the string in the first place. Surely, you don't want people to write code conditionalized on your browser, which sounds like it's supposed to be functionally identical to Firefox? In this case, just leave the original user-agent string in tact and do no harm :-) -Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
