Thomas Pamin wrote:
So, is it possible use spoofing or whatever to get the new Yahoo mail to
work with 2.0.13 and Windows 7?
Yes, although as has been discussed in this group before, if you're
doing spoofing, wherever possible, it's preferable to do it in such a
way that you're showing "Seamonkey" in the UI string. That way,
maintainers who actually pay attention to their logs can't claim "nobody
uses Seamonkey". And the same applies for other Gecko browsers, such as
Camino, K-meleon, etc.
The underlying problem is that sites that do browser sniffing tend to
assume "Firefox", rather than "Gecko", without the understanding that
Firefox, Seamonkey (and others) are all merely renditions of Gecko.
http://geckoisgecko.org/
My understanding is that the Firefox developers considered changing
their UI string to show only "Gecko" (and not "Firefox") in Firefox 4,
but chose not to. Doing so would have forced the issue of sniffing for
Gecko, rather than Firefox as an implementation of Gecko, but it would
have caused a lot of problems for Firefox users at sites that demand
Firefox.
What I find amusing is that long after Netscape died, there were sites
that insisted on Netscape 6 as the only acceptable alternative for IE.
However, I still occasionally see sites that barf on Seamonkey, and
their "unsupported browser" page still indicates that they want
Netscape, even if they actually accept connections from Firefox.
Smith
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