dman84 wrote:
> 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?
>
no this is not working.. there is a long standing bug in bugzilla for it
though.
> 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
>
Yup it works.. thanks Parish!
-dman84
