[webkit-reviews] review requested: [Bug 6907] REGRESSION: United.com JS menu's content spilling into page as of 1/29/06 : [Attachment 6093] Patch to add "MSIE 6.0" to user agent string

[bugzilla-request-daemon at opendarwin.org]

David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer at kilzer.net> has asked Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>
for review:
Bug 6907: REGRESSION: United.com JS menu's content spilling into page as of
1/29/06
http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6907

Attachment 6093: Patch to add "MSIE 6.0" to user agent string
http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/attachment.cgi?id=6093&action=edit

------- Additional Comments from David D. Kilzer <ddkilzer at kilzer.net>
I don't expect this patch to be accepted, but it's here to prove a point: 
WebKit is trying to act like MSIE in certain circumstances, so why not
advertise it in the user agent string?

Note that this change prevents the drop-down menus from being painted on the
web page itself, although there are still x/y (event?) offset issues when
actually drawing the drop-down menus

Another approach would be to add "stealth" features to document.all and other
commonly-used MSIE-specific DOM features so that browser sniffing code won't
identify Safari+WebKit as MSIE.  This has already been implemented by Firefox.

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5063