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Changing the UA String: Difference between revisions
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* One alternative to UA string changes is evangelism. Particularly if only a few widely-used libraries need to be changed, it may be possible to bend the web to our will. Mozilla has done this before around the time of the Netscape 6 and Mozilla 1.0 releases with a massive evangelism effort. We can do that again if we have a task to rally around. | * One alternative to UA string changes is evangelism. Particularly if only a few widely-used libraries need to be changed, it may be possible to bend the web to our will. Mozilla has done this before around the time of the Netscape 6 and Mozilla 1.0 releases with a massive evangelism effort. We can do that again if we have a task to rally around. | ||
* Another alternative (that some competing browsers use) is to send a modified UA to specific popular sites in order to ensure that they receive the most appropriate content, regardless of broken UA assumptions on those site. Whilst hard-coding specific sites is suboptimal, it may still be preferable to giving all other sites a more detailed UA, which will only encourage further problems later on. This need only be a temporary measure until the evangelism efforts above pay off - and could be implemented via about:config prefs or a "ship-by-default on platform X (eg mobile)" addon that can easily be disabled by the user. | |||
* For the best chance of success, proposals for change should to be accompanied by documented evidence of the improvements they bring. | * For the best chance of success, proposals for change should to be accompanied by documented evidence of the improvements they bring. | ||