[TriLUG] Browser Compatability [was quickbooks vs sql-ledger]

[Jim Wright]

You can also do an about:config in the url line of Mozilla or Firefox
and add the string name "general.useragent.override" with a value of
something like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
I believe that is what the plug-in does in a more automated fashion.
One kind of fun thing is to make your user agent the google spider, and
see how some sites are optimised for the search engines.  I note that
this method did not work with the shoebox site...they are trying really
hard to keep out anything other than IE 6.

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Rock Roskam
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:06 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] quickbooks vs sql-ledger


There is a plugin call user agent switching that tells mozilla to report
itself as IE.  I have used it to access some sites and allow connection.


Rock R


-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of bp
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 2:03 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] quickbooks vs sql-ledger


> You have to work *HARD* to make something that
> mozilla won't show.  And there are plenty of great web sites out there
> on cross-browser issues.

It's not *that* hard.

JavaScripts document.all in IE seems to kill a lot of pages for Mozilla 
based browsers that I see. 

And scripters using those objects can easily paint themselves into an IE

only corner without knowing that property ain't a blessed one.

So the real question is when is someone going to write a
deal-with-IE-site 
pluggin?

We all know the MSCE paper-tigers will never get out of M$ pocket.



-Barry

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