User Agent to add

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 15:14, Dawit A. wrote:
> > Dawit: the user-agent used to be editable, right? Why was it made
> > non-editable?
>
> Yes, it used to be editable. I changed it because we wanted to encourage
> people to stop changing the UA string. I think the reason is obvious. If we
> always pretend to be another browser, no website will bother fixing their
> broken sites that only accomodate IE or any other specific browser
> implementation. Anyways, that is the same reason why it is no longer easy

I don't understand this argument. You can still change the UA to IE. So what 
is the point in not letting the user editing the UA string? It does not 
improve the situation at all, just less flexibility.

> to change the default user-agent string to something else. However, I guess

This too, is a sad thing. Some website just do not allow me to visit the 
webpage if I don't use IE. Therefore I _have_ to change the UA string. Why 
making this difficult. Please let the users decide for themselves, don't try 
to be my web-nanny ;-).

best,
Jeroen