IE compatibility - Madfox

[Daniel Molkentin]

Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 20:37 schrieb Leo Savernik:
> Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 16:19 schrieb David Faure:
> > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 16:17, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > > I consider UA-string-switcher a better description as it doesn't imply
> > > anything else than identifying itself as another UA
> >
> > Wrong. We have behavioral quirks that depend on the UA.
> > E.g. window.navigate, document.scripts, document.all, element.all don't
> > exist in Netscape-compat mode, etc. This is (a partial attempt at)
> > emulation, not just UA-changing.
>
> That's true, but we still don't emulate every quirks. Hence, we shouldn't
> promise more than we can hold.

Ok but:

1) User-Agent is a pretty technical name. Simple and understandable wording 
should be our goal.
2) At least to me, Emulation implies that someting tries to behave like 
something else and gets as close as possible, but not necessarily  100%.


Cheers,
  Daniel