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

Allan Sandfeld Jensen kde at carewolf.com
Fri Jun 29 05:21:42 PDT 2007


On Sunday 17 June 2007 21:42, 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.
>
You need to allow setting innerHTML on StyleElements.

Regards
`Allan



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