Internet Explorer

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/5/30 Jerry Houston <jerry at effjayare.net>:
> On Saturday 30 May 2009 08:42:31 am Emil Payne wrote:
>> Jerry Houston wrote:
>> > Microsoft browsers use nonstandard technologies that other browsers don't
>> > support.  I can't see much sense in modifying a browser to pretend it's
>> > another type, when it can't handle output intended (only) for that type.
>>
>> I can - For those stupid websites that check to see if you are using IE
>> and then tell you that your browser won't work, even though it does
>> perfectly fine.
>
> I see.  I guess I've just never had that experience.  (And Firefox is my
> default browser everywhere.)
>
> But I do know what you mean.  I recall that Opera offered the option to
> identify itself as IE.  I just never knew why it would ever be useful.

Opera can still do that, and it can still identify as different things
for different web pages, which is easy changeable too. In earlier
versions you had to fiddle with a text file to make list of web sites,
if I recall it correctly, but now you just navigate to the site, right
click and a few clicks later you have done your settings. You can not
only identify as Firefox or IE, you can also MASK as them.

Some sites were not very Opera friendly a few years ago. Even though
Opera would show the pages very well when receiving the same
information as IE, those sites sent different information if Opera
identified as Opera. The Opera team did some experiments on this, by
identifying as ”Oprah”, and then Opera got the same info as IE and the
pages looked fine. When switching back to Opera, the pages were
distorted. One of the sites that did this were MSN.com.

My Internet bank didn't show any menu options in Opera except if I let
Opera mask as IE. A few weeks I noticed that that no longer was
necessary, so I suppose that my Internet bank changed its policy or
something like that… or my Opera was upgraded so my Internet bank
didn't recognize its user agent string…

Anyway, the point by identify as something else seems to have been to
work around bad sites, but they are fewer these days, I noticed. At
least the ones I visit.

Johnny Rosenberg

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