I found a browser detection issue with the user agent reported by Fluid. The default Fluid user agent looks like this on my computer:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/ 530.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Fluid/0.9.6 Safari/530.18 The problem is that the version number of Safari (Version/4.0.1) is missing which creates problems for web applications like mine that require Safari 3 and above. We use BrowserHawk for browser detection and without the Safari version number in the user agent, it assumes the browser is Safari 1.0 because Apple didn't put the version in the user agent until after Safari 1.0 so the lack of a version number is the way to identify version 1.0. I realize the build number is still in the user agent string but that's a difficult and messy way to do browser detection. Apple no longer publishes a list of Safari build numbers and the corresponding version numbers. Ideally, the default Fluid user agent string would be the following: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/ 530.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.1 Fluid/0.9.6 Safari/530.18 This would preserve the version number of Safari being used while also communicating which version of Fluid is in use. While manually changing the user agent string is a workaround for this, I can't expect the average user to do this in order to use Fluid and my application. Todd, I realize Fluid is free but I hope you will implement this change to the user agent string in your next update to Fluid. One more thing which you're probably aware of, but I thought I'd mention... Fluid 0.9.6 doesn't include Safari 4.x as an option in the list of selectable user agents. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "fluidapp" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fluidapp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
