On 5/25/2009 1:58 PM, Serge Popper wrote: > I run Seamonkey for both mail and browsing. On certain URL's the > original design of the page is not reproduced faithfully by Seamonkey. > One of those URL's is American Express. When opening a monthly > statement the figures are shown under the wrong columns and the > statement becomes impossible to read. American Express says they > support Firefox. > I'd like to know what the two components in Seamonkey are. Is the mail > side a version of Firefox? > Is there anything I can do in Seamonkey so that the columns and figures > are presented as written? > I actually have to use Internet Explorer to read my American Express > Statements. > Thanks, > Serge
"American Express says they support Firefox." Their Web server may be attempting to detect what browser you are using. This is called "sniffing". In too many cases, servers sniff for "Firefox" when they should instead sniff for "Gecko". That's because the component that requests and displays the Web page is the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine, which is used by both Firefox and SeaMonkey (although SeaMonkey uses a version of Gecko that is one step behind Firefox). See <http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Sardisson/Gecko_is_Gecko> for details. One way to test my conjecture that sniffing for "Firefox" is involved is to make the server think you are indeed using Firefox. This is called "spoofing". There are two major ways to do this. You can install an extension such as PrefBar or UserAgentSwitcher from Mozdev. Use the installed extension to spoof Firefox. You can change your user agent string manually. (See <http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html#agent> for a definition and example of "user agent".) Search in MozillaZine at <http://www.mozillazine.org/> for advice on doing this. If either of these solves your problem, then please (1) report it as a bug and (2) notify American Express. To report a bug, go to the American Express site; then, on the SeaMonkey menu bar, select [Help > Report Broken Web Site]. The best way to notify American Express would be a letter (postal mail) to the CEO; minimize (but don't eliminate) technical jargon and include a reference to the <http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Sardisson/Gecko_is_Gecko> Web site. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
