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Re: [SLE] Browser identification
- From: Ragnar Steingrimsson <ragnar@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:23:08 -0800 (PST)
- Message-id: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0201021213140.3330-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 2 Jan 2002, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
> I'd like to change the identification of some of my browsers so that
> they pretend they run on MS-Windows. Has anybody tried it?
On Windows I use Opera 6.0 as my primary browser. When I encounter
websites which do not accept Opera, I use the "camouflage mode",ie. change
the identification mode to see to what degree the site works with Opera.
Then I send a "standard" email to the site manager stating my "finding"
and with a spiel about the good reasons there are for their supporting
multiple browser.
On Linux, Netscape 6.2.1 has become my main browser, but I have rarely had
identification problems with it. If I did, I would send an email to the
site manager.
I am very reluctant to constantly browsing in "camouflage mode" because it
will not provide the information to site managers that a browser other
than IE is being used. In the end, the situation can only improve by
popular demand.
My girlfriend left hotmail because of that service's thinly vailed effort
to get people to use IE by placing intentional hurdles in the user's way.
I think voting with ones feet is at least one way to make ones voice
heard.
--
Ragnar Steingrimsson | Department of Cognitive Sciences
UC-Irvine, SSPA 3151 | Email: ragnar@xxxxxxx
Irvine, CA 92697 | Small Green Men
> I'd like to change the identification of some of my browsers so that
> they pretend they run on MS-Windows. Has anybody tried it?
On Windows I use Opera 6.0 as my primary browser. When I encounter
websites which do not accept Opera, I use the "camouflage mode",ie. change
the identification mode to see to what degree the site works with Opera.
Then I send a "standard" email to the site manager stating my "finding"
and with a spiel about the good reasons there are for their supporting
multiple browser.
On Linux, Netscape 6.2.1 has become my main browser, but I have rarely had
identification problems with it. If I did, I would send an email to the
site manager.
I am very reluctant to constantly browsing in "camouflage mode" because it
will not provide the information to site managers that a browser other
than IE is being used. In the end, the situation can only improve by
popular demand.
My girlfriend left hotmail because of that service's thinly vailed effort
to get people to use IE by placing intentional hurdles in the user's way.
I think voting with ones feet is at least one way to make ones voice
heard.
--
Ragnar Steingrimsson | Department of Cognitive Sciences
UC-Irvine, SSPA 3151 | Email: ragnar@xxxxxxx
Irvine, CA 92697 | Small Green Men
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