On 1/3/11 2:06 PM, Ray_Net wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> David E. Ross wrote: >> >>> .. Of course, that will hide the fact that SeaMonkey is in use and >>> lead Web developers to ignore SeaMonkey. >> >> That's also a reason I frequently dispute folks when they say "just set >> it to mask as IE and fuggetaboutit." :-/ >> > If the code in seamonkey *is* the code of firefox, it's normal that he > *must* spoof as firefox.
The code in SeaMonkey is NOT the code of Firefox. The user interfaces of these two are different, which is the main reason I use SeaMonkey and not Firefox. Soon, Firefox will do away with facilitating the use of multiple profiles and with the status bar at the bottom of the browser window. I'm hoping multiple profiles remain in SeaMonkey. I've been informed that the status bar will definitely remain. What is common between the two is the use of the Gecko core and certain other core-like components. It is the Gecko core that displays Web pages. Thus, both FireFox and SeaMonkey should identify themselves as "Gecko". Oops, they already do. The problem is with Web developers who setup servers to sniff for "Firefox" when they should instead sniff for "Gecko" -- if they can really justify sniffing. A Web page that complies with the W3C specifications generally should not require sniffing at all. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
