This is definitely an evangelism issue. I've filed http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15568 for this. Thanks for the report and the investigation!
Regards, Glenn 2009/6/28 samokhov <[email protected]> > I tried MSIE6 version as well, and it worked. > > Moreover, here's the script they use (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/ > 14413992/): > if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("AppleWebKit") !=-1) { > var fc = document.getElementById("flashcontent"); > fc.innerHTML = "Hello, Safari user! Unfortunately, the photoblog > is having a hard time with Safari right now, but we're working on it > as fast as we possibly can. Until we can get a fix in place, would you > mind giving Firefox a shot?"; > } else { > // show the flash content > } > > So basically they think any WebKit browser is Safari. > > On Jun 27, 7:17 pm, "Javier Godoy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, I didn't know that. > > > > About the problem identified by khalid, I tried the MSIE6 version, but > the site still thinks I have Safari... so they should be performing browser > detection by another means. Before testing I verified in about:version that > the User-Agent was properly overriden. > > > > Regards > > > > Javier > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: PhistucK > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: Chromium-discuss > > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:29 AM > > Subject: [chromium-discuss] Re: chrome is not safari > > > > I mean, you can change the user agent string by adding that to the end > of the Chrome shortcut (right click on the Chrome icon, select Properties > and append to the Address or Path field) - > > --user-agent="TYPE_THE_USER_AGENT_STRING_HERE" > > > > This one will make the Photoblog think you have FireFox 2 - > > --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; > rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20" > > > > This one will make the Photoblog think you are Internet Explorer 6 - > > --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:51, khalid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > on msnbc photo blog i got this with chrome > > > > "Hello, Safari user! Unfortunately, the photoblog is having a hard > > time with Safari right now, but we're working on it as fast as we > > possibly can. Until we can get a fix in place, would you mind giving > > Firefox a shot?" > > > > http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/25/1978896.aspx > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
