user-agent on msdn

[Thiago Macieira]

Daniele Domenichelli wrote:
>I tried to open some pages on msdn (for example
>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767865.aspx) with konqueror
>(version 3.5.8 user-agent string "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;
>Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.8 (like Gecko)") and I realized that
>they are not rendered well, some margins and colors are wrong, stars
>for feedback are in the wrong place and the page is not scrollable.
>Then I tried to change browser identification to IE, Opera, and
>Firefox and I found that they are rendered as they should.
>
>You can check the differences on these pictures:
>http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6829/msdnkonq1qk1.jpg (konqueror
> version) http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5276/msdnie1hz9.jpg (ie
> version)
>
>I found nothing about on the archive of this mailing list, is this a
>known issue?

No. You should be asking Microsoft why they serve pages differently 
depending on the user-agent. We have no way of forcing the issue.

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