On 6 Mar 2009, at 14:48:40 PST, Dan wrote:

> At 2:22 PM -0700 3/6/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> On Mar 6, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Dan wrote:
>>> Most of the links in hotmail don't work in Safari 4, until you
>>>  change the agent to report that it's not Safari on a Mac.  Then  
>>> they
>>> work fine.
>>
>> Someone smart should make an intelligent user-agent switcher, so we
>> can peg certain sites as 'I have to pretend I'm X at this site'.
>
> I think that's covered in the "Site-specific Hacks", controlled in
> the Develop menu.  Not sure what'all that encompasses tho.
>
>> I once spent a half-hour on the phone arguing with an IT "tech" at  
>> the
>> hospital who was absolutely convinced beyond any reason that their
>> Citrix app "...would NEVER EVER run on a Mac, no nope just not
>> possible Macs are strange voodoo unknown scary devices wooooooo!"
>>
>> As I was looking at their application running just fine on a Macbook
>> running Safari set to ID itself as IE6 for Windows.
>
> LOL   Darn voodoo.
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Hmmm. How does one go about causing a browser to "report" that
it is IE6 for Windows?

Ken
http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs



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