- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:49:23 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> To me it seems reasonable that three different browsers should identify > themselves with three different User-Agent headers. Ignoring, for a moment, > the misuse that this header has been put to, the idea to use if for But is exactly the misuse that means there is a market demand for minority browsers to allow their users to configure the User Agent string - it's almost an FAQ for Lynx as to what User Agent string one should use, as default, to make servers believe they are dealing with a big 2 browser. As I've pointed out before, IE pretends to be Netscape and has done for more than half a decade.
Received on Sunday, 24 November 2002 15:11:43 UTC