* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > > So the user agent thing is fairly well documented at > > http://bugs.debian.org/399633, but basically it's our stand against > > user-agent insanity. We could of course make it say Firefox easily, > > but this certainly seems a bit defeatist. > > s/defeatist/defeated/ > > I realized this battle was over when discussion on debian-user revieled > that google maps behaved differently in firefox than iceweasel, because it > used a firefox-UA specific test to enable a feature (closing the sidebar > to make the map take up the full screen). > > If the top website out there gets it "wrong", the battle is effectively > over; "right" or "wrong" no longer really matters (victors write history > etc).
Well I think Google generally does treat the Iceweasel user agent properly. Not everyone understands these issues as well as they should, mistakes get made. I mean we could set the User-Agent to IE like some other browsers do, that would make more sites work. > > I think we should almost > > certainly document the workaround better in the README.Debian. Of > > course I highly respect Joey's opinion so I'm open to more > > convincing. > > I'm afraid that documenting it in README.Debian won't help desktop users > who just find that this strange "iceweasel" browser we install by > default doesn't work on sites that firefox works on. Could we do it in a more prominent perhaps? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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