What d'ya think re: HTTP Identification ?!?

[Yosuke Arai]

Mel,

As OW zealots we'd like to make site authors realize that there are active
visitors using OW. What would happen if we all would spoof OW as a different
browser? No site author would consider support for OW because there are
"supposed to be" no OW users. That's probably why OmniGroup has decided to
give users a chance to spoof on a site-specific basis, but not on the global
setting. So avoid spoofing whenever possible, except for webpages that works
well only by spoofing as a different browser.

FYI when I have to temporarily spoof for one reason or another, I use IE or
Safari spoofing as IE for Windows via Debug menu.

Yosuke Arai


on 05.3.2 4:57 AM, Mel Pleasant at pleasant at pobox.com wrote:

> We all use OW because, presumably, it happens to be the best web
> browser out there for us - at least I think so.  The good folk at
> OmniGroup have stated that they'll stick by the standards - none of
> this IE crap for us.....  Unfortunately, OW just isn't getting the
> market share and thus web developers, like those at Google, just don't
> have OW on the radar.  So, we OW users wind up having to hack the HTTP
> Identification information to fake looking like another browser.  So,
> having done this on a site specific basis I am now asking myself this
> question: Why shouldn't I always have the HTTP Identification
> information set to something else, like say, Safari?!?  I know the good
> folk at OmniGroup would probably like to see OW show up in web stats
> but beyond pure mktg reasons, are there other good reasons to have OW
> identify itself as OW?  I'd certainly appreciate hearing from the
> OmniGroup folk on this matter as well .....
> 
> -- Mel