Jonas J�rgensen wrote: > Jeremy M. Dolan wrote: > >>As much as I'd love to properly use U-A, too much of the web would >>break. Sorry. I did bring up this thread to try and make the best of >>what we can work with, though. > > How many sites completely blocks browsers with an unknown User-Agent > string? There are millions, I know, but how large a percentage of all > websites out there actually does this? If it's reasonably low, I'd still > say change it anyway and worry about the consequences later. > > What would happen if we did that? Don't you think that one year from > now, many (most?) webmasters will be checking their sites with Mozilla?
You can always spoof your UA and see what happens. I'd imagine the percentage is reasonably low, but if they're popular sites we might turn away potential Mozilla users faster than we can evangelize the sites. -Dan Veditz
