upscope wrote: > 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.) > > 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.
Most "developers" (or so they think themselves) these days write and test with three or four browsers: IE (either 7 or 8), Firefox, Chrome, and possibly Opera. They do not understand that writing *standard, compliant code* will work in *all* modern browsers. BTW, the <html></html>, <head></head> and <body></body> elements are _not_ required with any browser, nor by the W3C. I'm quite familiar with the W3C and CSS validators. For an example, see: <http://tekrider.net/usenet/elements.html> Some years ago, a young fellow did his doctoral thesis on "validity of web pages." He found at that time that approximately 7% of millions of pages were valid. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
