[Camino] viewing HTML problem

[Smokey Ardisson]

At 9:04 PM +0530 on  1/8/07, Livin Stephen Sharma wrote:

>  I see this too while trying to access my official Webmail 
>(spoofing, As you suggest, as IE6/7).
>
>  Is there some way to get this (spoofing) to work - without the "a 
>lot of code at the top but not the ability to read the mail" ?
>I want to use agent-spoofing to use the features that Webmail opens 
>up to IE6+

No; spoofing only really works when a site bone-headly denies entry 
to a browser that the site already otherwise supports (e.g., a 
standard web page that works with any browser, or a web app tuned to 
support Gecko but which pretends Firefox is the only Gecko browser). 
In most cases with modern sites/apps, claiming to be another browser 
(particularly one using another rendering engine, especially one 
running on another platform) will only "break" a site.

The very ugly fundamental reality of complex modern websites is that 
"write once, works everywhere" is a myth--there are enough 
differences in features, bugs, and holes in standards support between 
all the major rendering engines that authors of complex sites will 
have to write/tune the site, or parts of it, 2-4 different times, and 
serve different code depending on the rendering engine used in the 
browser.

So when you're spoofing as IE, you're getting code designed for all 
of IE's bugs and non-standard features and implementations, and Gecko 
doesn't support the vast majority of those quirks and won't know what 
to do with the code....

Smokey
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Smokey Ardisson
Co-Lead
Triage/QA and Website & Documentation
The Camino Project