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Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?


From: Larry W. Virden, x2487
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 07:24:20 -0500

Just so folk won't have unrealistic expectations - you may not get what
you are expecting by telling sites that you are mozilla compatible.  I
tried this with mail.yahoo.com .  Without making the change, it won't
let the lynx user in at all.  Making the User Agent change to say that
lynx is Mozilla compatible, you get started on the site, but the site
is heavily javascript - and of course the site thinks that's okay,
because the user agent string now says that lynx is mozilla
compatible...

Another site that setting the string doesn't help with is www.onelist.com.

So there are going to be some sites that do things right, some sites that
the change will help but some sites are so poorly written that nothing
helps.
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