Re: [wmlprogramming] Verizon, guidelines

• From: Luca Passani <passani@eunet.no>
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:50:08 +0100
• To: wmlprogramming@yahoogroups.com
• CC: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>, public-bpwg-ct <public-bpwg-ct@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <494BECE0.1010706@eunet.no>

Francois Daoust wrote:
>
>> Of course, the "unless" clause in CTG makes it easier for Novarra and 
>> Verizon to justify the abuse, as compared to the Manifesto.
>
> It does not.
> We resolved to add an explicit text in this section that states that 
> inferring that a desktop User-Agent is needed in the absence of any 
> indication (e.g. URI patterns) is contrary to the guidelines. 

Francois, Can I find the text  you are referring to somewhere?

anyway, my interpretation of your sentence is that, in case of a URI of 
the form "www.*" it is OK to spoof the UA string. Do I understand correctly?

If I understand correctly, I am still inviting W3C to be strong and 
require that the UA header is never replaced.

Luca

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