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Re: Oh, great! this is just what we need...

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From: Tom Gilder
Date: Oct 11, 2002 12:12PM

On Friday, October 11, 2002, 7:35:36 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
> There's this extremely common practice called 'browser sniffing' and if
> you aren't the browser that 'they' want you to be, then 'they' keep you
> from their site, even if it will work fine.
<snip>

Yes, I'm aware that Opera users face hardship with poor browser
sniffing. But Opera could deal with this much better - defaulting to
properly identifying as Opera, and allowing per-domain UA setting.

It could also attempt to automatically detect "your browser isn't
supported" messages, and try a different UA string.

--
Tom Gilder
http://tom.me.uk/


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