Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Ben Bishop
Using an User Agent switcher, you can see how some sites serve up different content based on the user agent. For a demonstration of making content accessible to different users, in this case search engines such as Google, camouflage yourself with the Googlebot UA and visit some Microsoft web pa

RE: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Lindsay Evans
Nick Lo wrote: > Here's how to enable it: > > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629 > > However, before you get too excited "it can pretend to be a bunch of > different browsers" merely refers to it's ability to set the User > Agent HTTP header to say it's another browser.

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Nick Lo
Here's how to enable it: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030110063041629 However, before you get too excited "it can pretend to be a bunch of different browsers" merely refers to it's ability to set the User Agent HTTP header to say it's another browser. Useful e.g. when online

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Universal Head
What tha - how does this work? On 04/02/2004, at 6:17 PM, Sean A Corfield wrote: The debug menu is extremely useful: it can pretend to be a bunch of different browsers, it has a basic load test engine built in, it can show the DOM tree... Peter Gifford Universal Head  Design That Works. 7/43

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-04 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, but why is everyone so enthused about safari?, Because it's a very good, very fast browser. And it's very well integrated with OS X. The debug menu is extremely useful: it can pretend to be a bunch of different browsers, it has a basic

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread info
Sorry, but why is everyone so enthused about safari?, After my frustrations I use Mozilla firebird. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/ okay, it is still in beta testing, but the beauty is that you can become part of the development (over my head), but designers can stylize it via the .jar f

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread Hugh Todd
Justin, Perhaps Safari needs a developer edition Nice idea. What I guess happens at present is that the "web kit" that drives Safari, Mail (and iTunes?) is the important part of the update, and this is something that is available system-wide. So there would have to be a way of running different

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Feb 3, 2004, at 8:49 PM, Justin French wrote: The problem is, Safari 1.0 doesn't actually expire (AFAIK). Correct. 1.0 is the last version produced for OS X 10.2.x (Jaguar). 1.2 is the current version for OS X 10.3.x (Panther). Whilst it's more than likely that a vast majority of web users wil

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread info
thanks for clarifying that justin. I thought about my comment & realized that it is with os update that it happens, so thanks for correcting me... * The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread Justin French
On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 03:03 PM, Universal Head wrote: Now THAT's a smart idea - old browsers that expire. If only IE and NN did that! Peter A browser that actually expires would be great. If NN4, IE4, Opera 4, etc all *expired* in 2002, the cost of web development would be a lot

Re: [WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread Universal Head
Now THAT's a smart idea - old browsers that expire. If only IE and NN did that! Peter Safari V 1.2 Actually takes over the old safari which expires. they are still having a few javascripting issues where some scripts still wont work. * The di

[WSG] reply to Safari question

2004-02-03 Thread info
Hi people, this is my first mail, I am very glad to become part of this site, as It has raised my awareness of compatabilities heaps! Safari V 1.2 Actually takes over the old safari which expires. they are still having a few javascripting issues where some scripts still wont work. I am usin