On Friday, February 25, 2011 04:30:23 AM Beauregard T. Shagnasty
wrote:
> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>
> > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> >> hapihakr wrote:
> >>> Use the user agent string option to masquerade as Firefox. The
> >>> following command will execute on Linux. Windows may be slightly
> >>> different (both executable program and user agent string).
> >>>
> >>> google-chrome --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64;
> >>> en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Linux Mint/9 (Isadora)
> >>> Firefox/3.6.13"
> >>
> >> Instead of changing to the Firefox UA string (which will reduce
> >> SeaMonkey's market share), just add the following to the
original:
> >>
> >> NOT Firefox/3.6.13
> >>
> >> The sniffers just look in the string for the word "Firefox".
Better
> >> yet, notify the web site to stop sniffing completely. If an
author
> >> builds a proper web site, it will/should work in any browser.
> >
> > But what will they do with all that money they save by building
only
> > one version of their site? And how will their webmaster survive on
> > only a third of his former pay?
>
> I'm guessing your post is tongue-in-cheek humor. That's okay.
However,
> it is not necessary to build multiple versions, not even for
multiple
> languages. If one writes code adhering to W3C standards, browser
> *sniffing* is not required at all. This is not difficult.
>
> (Re the languages, the content is contained in a database and the
> particular content is read and displayed by server-side scripts and
> based on user choice of the language.)
>
> --
> -bts
> -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul
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One of the reasons they write for only one browser (ususlly IE) is Ms
does not require the </head> or </body> part of the line. W3C does.
It's called laziness. Just run a browser page thru the W3C verifier
and you will see.
--
Russ
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