Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

[Eric Dorland]

* Joey Hess (joeyh at debian.org) wrote:
> Eric Dorland wrote:
> > So the user agent thing is fairly well documented at
> > http://bugs.debian.org/399633, but basically it's our stand against
> > user-agent insanity. We could of course make it say Firefox easily,
> > but this certainly seems a bit defeatist.
> 
> s/defeatist/defeated/
> 
> I realized this battle was over when discussion on debian-user revieled
> that google maps behaved differently in firefox than iceweasel, because it
> used a firefox-UA specific test to enable a feature (closing the sidebar
> to make the map take up the full screen).
> 
> If the top website out there gets it "wrong", the battle is effectively 
> over; "right" or "wrong" no longer really matters (victors write history
> etc).

Well I think Google generally does treat the Iceweasel user agent
properly. Not everyone understands these issues as well as they
should, mistakes get made. I mean we could set the User-Agent to IE
like some other browsers do, that would make more sites work.
 
> > I think we should almost
> > certainly document the workaround better in the README.Debian. Of
> > course I highly respect Joey's opinion so I'm open to more
> > convincing. 
> 
> I'm afraid that documenting it in README.Debian won't help desktop users
> who just find that this strange "iceweasel" browser we install by
> default doesn't work on sites that firefox works on.

Could we do it in a more prominent perhaps?  


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Eric Dorland <eric at kuroneko.ca>
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