At 9:04 PM +0530 on 1/8/07, Livin Stephen Sharma wrote: > I see this too while trying to access my official Webmail >(spoofing, As you suggest, as IE6/7). > > Is there some way to get this (spoofing) to work - without the "a >lot of code at the top but not the ability to read the mail" ? >I want to use agent-spoofing to use the features that Webmail opens >up to IE6+
No; spoofing only really works when a site bone-headly denies entry to a browser that the site already otherwise supports (e.g., a standard web page that works with any browser, or a web app tuned to support Gecko but which pretends Firefox is the only Gecko browser). In most cases with modern sites/apps, claiming to be another browser (particularly one using another rendering engine, especially one running on another platform) will only "break" a site. The very ugly fundamental reality of complex modern websites is that "write once, works everywhere" is a myth--there are enough differences in features, bugs, and holes in standards support between all the major rendering engines that authors of complex sites will have to write/tune the site, or parts of it, 2-4 different times, and serve different code depending on the rendering engine used in the browser. So when you're spoofing as IE, you're getting code designed for all of IE's bugs and non-standard features and implementations, and Gecko doesn't support the vast majority of those quirks and won't know what to do with the code.... Smokey -- Smokey Ardisson Co-Lead Triage/QA and Website & Documentation The Camino Project _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino
