[webkit-dev] Firefox spoofing in Safari 3.0 and Gmail issues

[Andre-John Mas]

On 17-Jun-07, at 15:42 , Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

>
> On Jun 17, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In Safari 3.0 it is now possible to change the user agent to  
>> Firefox 2.0.0.2.
>> In doing so the Gmail site does not render at all. Well it  
>> displays but no
>> formatting is provided, not even HTML elements.
>>
>> Is this a known issue? Build is 522.11.
>
> I noticed this myself as well. You can't necessarily expect sites  
> to always work when spoofing as another user agent. GMail in  
> particular sends rather different content depending on your  
> browser. I do seem to recall it working earlier though, and I am  
> not sure if it's a WebKit change or a GMail site change that makes  
> it not work at all now. It used to be that spoofing sort of worked  
> and enabled the Quick Contacts feature.

Well I suppose that's what happens when web site try being too smart.  
The real
reason I had changed the user agent was to see if the rendering of  
the contact
list was now working properly. Since the page is so messed up I can't  
verify
this.

Andre