[Desktop_architects] Re: Proposed meeting output- Desktop Architects Meeting

[Tom Welch]

I've not tried that but given the fact that in the past when I have run 
into this problem, fixing the agent string does take care of the 
problem.  If someone wants to give me a valid "Windows IE 6.0" user 
agent string I'll be happy to give it a try.

Tom

Bastian, Waldo wrote:

>>On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 05:30:11AM -0800, Tom Welch wrote:
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>>>Mike Shaver wrote:
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>>>>On 21-Nov-05, at 11:38 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
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>>>>>>     * Web content
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>>>>>         - incompatible Javascript / "HTML"
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>>>>Our current data indicates that the amount of web content (not
>>>>intranet content) that requires IE is pretty small, though some
>>>>painful exceptions remain.  If people are getting other indicators
>>>>for desktop use (esp. outside the Enterprise), then I will be
>>>>extremely interested in hearing about that.  Either way, I'm happy
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>to
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>>>>spend some time talking about what we're doing to improve that story
>>>>-- and what we're not interested in doing, perhaps more importantly.
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>>>Here are a couple for you.  When running on Linspire with Mozilla 1.6
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>or
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>>>Firefox 1.0 you can't browse to the following sites:
>>>
>>>www.oldnavy.com
>>>www.gap.com
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>>Nor do they work with Firefox 1.5-beta
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>>The first one worked briefly in Konqueror but then I got the same
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>error.
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>>Possibly the site works more or less okay, but they're deliberately
>>preventing unsupported browsers from viewing it.
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>Does it make a difference if you change the User Agent in konqueror?
>
>Cheers,
>Waldo
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