Yup. It's a handy trick that I use on junky sites that sniff the browser
type. I've been blocked or had bad behavior on some sites and had the
issues go away by essentially lying about being in IE6. Kind of annoying
that they are messing things up for Safari on purpose. In general it's
bad practice to be sniffing browsers. Instead they should be sniffing
capabilities which is a more future-proof solution.
CB
Mike's Western Account wrote:
hey all;
so i discovered this and it has helped me. I wanted to use a service on
http://www.onebox.com
but they would not let me log in because i was using safari, so i
looked and looked and found out that if you go into your preferences
to advance and check the box that says show develop menu then you have
lots of options. This will give you a new menu bar under vo}m, and it
will be called develop. This gives you options such as appearing that
your using internet explorer, to appearing that your using a version
of safari that is used on the iphone. This does not change the
functions of safari and still looks the same. Also, something that
might hlep your surfing is under the develop menu you can disable java
scripts, and finally disable images. It is good for people like me who
are currently on starband internet and must watch my bandwith usage.
well anyways have fun there are lots more options in this menu as well.
thanks
Mike
