On Aug 31, 2006, at 5:34 PM, John Resig wrote: >> It is fairly common to spoof or manipulate a browser's user agent >> string. > > Woah... that's news to me! Especially considering that Safari and > Opera combined have like 4% of the browser market. I looked at Opera 9 > and it's not immediately apparent how to switch user agents (in that, > I was looking for it, and I can't find it anywhere). Additionally, in > Safari you must enable a debug menu on the command-line before you can > even see the menu to change your user agent. > > I mean, it's something like this: > Opera and Safari Browser Market >> Number of users who know what a > "user agent" is >> Number of users who change their user agent >> The > number of users who leave their user agent changed.
Forgot to mention that you have to turn on the Debug menu in Safari using the command line to muck with the UA. > > I mean, I think I'd be generous saying that that's like 10 people -- > in the world. I did it once, to use a particularly ornery site once. Did it for my wife once too. Does that make it 8 people? ;) Corey _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
