Re: Re: zaurus websites

> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:27:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: Eben King <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Zaurus-general] zaurus websites
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> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Jones, Gregory James wrote:
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> > 2. Email:      http://www.hotmail.com <-- This is actually 
> very cool.  I
> > wish you could use this version from non-pda's.
> 
> Well, you could go to a web site such as 
> http://pgl.yoyo.org/http/browser-headers.php to sees what 
> User-Agent is sent (in my case it's "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; 
> MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.6-rmk1-np2-embedix armv4l; 240x320) Opera 
> 5.0 [en]"), then use some sort of privacy proxy (such as 
> junkbuster) to rewrite your headers to pretend it's that browser.
> 
> ...
> 
> Yep, that screen is pretty cool.  Just tried the method; it 
> works.  If you shorten the User-Agent to "Mozilla/4.0 
> (240x320)", you get an even lower-graphic login screen, but 
> other sites may not deal well with the shortening.  Just 
> "(240x320)" produces an interesting screen too.
> 
> > A compilation of these would be great.
> 

No, I meant a compilation of sites that have palm-ready pages.

That would be cool.  

browser sniffing, in general is bad (more due to its application than to
the technology itself.  I like your idea below better.

Jim


> Sites that do browser sniffing?  I'm not sure that's a good 
> thing to encourage.  I think it would be better to have a 
> separate URL for the "small screen" variants, such as 
> "http://hotmail.com/pda" (which doesn't exist).
> 
> -- 
> -eben    [email protected]    
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