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Change Firebird useragent from browser
It has been said again and again, this is a BAD thing to do. The whole reason that IE only sites still exist is because the people who run / write the sites think that their "customers" only use IE. When you change your user agent to *say* that you are using IE, it only reinforces their beliefs. But when they look at the server logs and see the OTHER browsers user agents, it shows that people DO use browsers other than IE. Why not politely inform the site owners that you do not use IE but would like to use their site? I have not yet found one thing (as a web/java developer) that you can do in IE that you can't do in Mozilla. Or many other web browsers. It is a lazy coder who writes code that checks explicitly for IE. Especially since on the Mac the other browsers are much better than IE, and on Linux there is NO IE. Linux + Mac = a good number of customers.
Change Firebird useragent from browser
Wish it were that easy. I've complained on many occasions only to be told that as a Mac user I am in a tiny minority and to compound the crime I have the audacity to use a non-standard browser.
Change Firebird useragent from browser
I don't deny that fact. But the simple reality is that you still shop there. So they get your $$$ whether they change their browser code or not. If there is a site that doesn't work in non-IE browsers, I just don't use it. I have never had a service or product that I couldn't find elsewhere, using a browser that is not IE.
The funny part is that I am a java/web developer. The system we are developing at work, per the official specs and requirements, is only supposed to support IE. We have never written any code specifically for IE, nor any to specifically check for a browser version. Strangely enough, the system runs BETTER under Mozilla (and mozilla based) browsers than it does in IE.... We even use Mozilla for debugging Javascript code (because it is impossible in IE...).
Change Firebird useragent from browser
The number of people who use a Mac AND a nonstandard browser AND change their user-agent string is so incredibly small as to render hacks such as this statistically insignificant, insofar as "IE-only" sites collect statistics on the browser clientele. Go ahead and change the string in good conscience. If enough people start changing the string as to be worth consideration, then there will be a far, far larger population who don't, providing the necessary stimulus for better Web coding. |
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