Question About This Newsgroup
David E. Ross
appropriately for any Gecko browser, including SeaMonkey and Camino, and
for Web sites that improperly sniff for "Firefox" instead of "Gecko".
At least, that's how bugzilla.mozilla.org defines Tech Evangelism. For,
example, see bug #334967 at
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334967>.
However, I see only messages here that are about promoting Firefox. Are
there no SeaMonkey users here concerned about invalid sniffing?
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David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to
extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other
Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much
more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons.
Chris Blizzard
> From: "David E. Ross" <nob...@nowhere.not>
> To: evang...@lists.mozilla.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:41:29 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Question About This Newsgroup
>
> Tech Evangelism includes dealing with Web sites that do not display
> appropriately for any Gecko browser, including SeaMonkey and Camino,
> and
> for Web sites that improperly sniff for "Firefox" instead of "Gecko".
> At least, that's how bugzilla.mozilla.org defines Tech Evangelism.
> For,
> example, see bug #334967 at
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334967>.
>
> However, I see only messages here that are about promoting Firefox.
> Are
> there no SeaMonkey users here concerned about invalid sniffing?
>
Hi, David! You're right that one of the things that tech evangelism does is to help web sites make proper use of standards including UA sniffing, that's only a small part of what we do. In fact we need to do that for mobile as well since a lot of people are using certain parts of the UA string to guess whether or not something is a mobile device.
Right now we are pretty focused on Firefox, though. We've just done a release and it's the biggest lever that we have to advance standards on the web. So we're going to continue to invest there and make sure that people understand how to take advantage of all of the new stuff that we're bringing to the web.
--Chris