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. Useful e.g. when online > banking with a bank that doesn't recognise Safari as a viable browser > even if it otherwise functions fine. Now you see Safari ...switch... > now you see Windows MSIE 6.0, etc., type thing.
I'd just like to weigh in here & say that I think doing this is *incredibly* counter-productive if you don't also complain to the site in question, if the bank/whatever turns to their stats at the end of the year/month/etc., sees that no-one is using opera/safari/whathaveyou, then they are a lot less likely to take their silly browser detection crap away. If, however, they have a pile of emails from customers telling them that they can't get into their site, then they're a lot more likely to make the change. That said, it's also handy to get into NYT articles without registering (hint, GoogleBot doesn't need to register... :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
