Parish wrote:
> dman84 wrote:
> > they probably made them proprietary IE language stuff.. cause it doesn't
> > work here either.. this is something I see coming.. MS is doing the
> > anti-competitive here with their web-pages.
> >
>
> I've solved it! It's the UA string. At home, my UA string is
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020221
>
> but at work it's
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110
> Netscape6/6.5
>
> I added the user_pref() for the UA string override on my home machine
> and now the page is displayed correctly.
>
> I checked the source and MS serves different pages for Moz and IE; IE's
> is full of Javascript and for Moz you get
>
> <input type=hidden name='Query'......
>
> When I changed the UA string it serves up the same code as IE.
>
> Just to confirm this I added ``Netscape6/6.5'' to the end of my home UA
> string:
>
> user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
> Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020221 Netscape6/6.5");
>
> and it still works.
>
This is good news: Thanks Parish.
> So, it would appear that MS *do* support rival browsers, it's just that
> they use ``Netscape6'' in the UA string to identify them rather than
> "Gecko".
Say does this fix www.nvidia.com 's browser mouse-over menus?
So its a ploy to not let AOL+Gecko work yet then.. great.. :)
>
> Credit where credit's due, MS should be given a pat on the back for this.
>
Yes indeed! Thanks MS.
> dman84: can you try this and confirm that it works for you
>
> Regards,
>
> Parish
I'm going to try it now to see what happens.. will fire back in a bit.
-dman84
