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Re: Nana Shops (was Re: Netscape 6.1 BiDi)
- To: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at-nospam)itouch.co.il>
- Subject: Re: Nana Shops (was Re: Netscape 6.1 BiDi)
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:06:19 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <01082215031401.03804@herouth.prv.il.itouchnet.net>
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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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