On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:29:43AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * 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?
Note that the about: page, which is the default home page in iceweasel, contains a link to the README.Debian file. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
