Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from
> > > "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5".
> >
> > Worked like a treat, thanks!!
> >
> > > Then web sites won't be able to tell the difference, and FWIW you
> > > should report the web site to it's owners as broken. User-agent
> > > detection is broken behavior.
> >
> > I feel it's the website not knowing the browser, hense, unable to render
> > the page properly. Thanks.
> >
>
> Not to get all gripey or anything, but there are web standards for precisely
> this reason. See http://www.w3.org

Having just put together my first real webpage (still pretty basic) let me tell you (I'm sure you know) its a royal PITA. I've had to make an extra stylesheet just for stupid IE and then put a check for IE in the headers. Thankfully it was pretty simple and I end up with a page that renders "okay" in IE and looks great in everything else. I told my "customer" (heh, step-mother) that if it got any more complicated that I wasn't going to support IE and we'd just put up a redirect to mozilla. She doesn't understand but, what can you do. I'm not going to go down that road.

A

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