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Re: Nana Shops (was Re: Netscape 6.1 BiDi)



On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 August 2001 13:40, you wrote:
> > in that case they should have allowed mozilla long ago.
>
> Well, they should allow *anything*. They shouldn't just block people,
> they should warn them that the site is guaranteed to work only for
> (Nameyour favorite browser here).

(And they would still get basshed by AnyBrowser purists.
http://www.anybrowser.org/ )

>
> > anyhow I think that at least galeon can indentify itself as any web
> > brower you want no?
>
> So can Konqueror. In fact, you can tell konqueror to give a different
> user-agent string based on URL, so that it will still be identified
> as Konqueror by the rest of the world.

And in fact Opera does so by default. The windows version defaults to
pretending to be MSIE5.

[ opera does not even has a decent support for the hebrew charset ]

So banning based on a UserAgent is really not a bright idea.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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