Well it turns out, from all the popular browsers and search engine bots, that there's only really one difference when viewing EC. I was fooling around with Firefox and noticed this. I have a User Agent Switcher installed on my Firefox, which means I can make a website think I'm using any browser (including bots and odd things like that), and I've noticed this. On some browsers, such as: Netscape 4.8 (Windows Vista) Netscape 4.8 (Windows XP) Google robot 66.249.64.XXX Avant Browser Multizilla Googlebot 2.1 Msnbot 1.0 Yahoo Slurp Epiphany (Linux) NOT Epiphany (Ubuntu) Galeon 1.3.14 Konqueror (Any Version) And others... (sorry got tired of trying any more, haha)... ...the top bar has the following options: My Settings FAQ Members List Calendar Chat Room Search New Posts Mark Forums Read Open Buddy List Log Out While on (to name a few...): Firefox (any version) MSIE (any version) Opera (any version) Safari (any version) Epiphany (Ubuntu) Wii (and others, these were the ones that stood out) ...the top bar includes: My Settings FAQ Members List Calendar Chat Room New Posts Search Quick Links Log Out So, it looks like us normal browser users get a cool quick links drop down menu. Yes, I was really bored. Also, I would assume this also affects the search drop down. Just felt like sharing, :lol:
well at the moment i'm viewing the forum on the browser built in to the playstation 3. No idea what it's called, but it to doesn't have that drop down menu. Wonder why that is?
The menu appears on Konqueror 3.5.5 on openSUSE 10.2 (x86-64). I'll access the site with all the browsers I have and then post what I observed here. I have the following browsers and OS's currently installed: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 (Windows XP, Linux x86-64) Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (Windows XP) Opera 9.22 (Windows XP, Linux x86-64) Konqueror 3.5.5 (Linux x86-64) Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (Windows 95) Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (Windows 95) Netscape Navigator 4.8 (Windows 95)
Whoops, then. It didn't on both versions I had. I'll fix that, then. Errr, I guess I can't fix that. Well whatever, now you know, haha.
Konqueror should behave more or less like Safari (Safari's WebCore renderer is practically the same as Konqueror's KHTML renderer) Similarly, all Gecko-based browsers (Firefox, Netscape 9, SeaMonkey, Galeon, Epiphany, K-Meleon) should act the same way.
The presence or absence of some of the options depends on whether you are logged in or not. So you need to be consistent with that.
If you want to have fun, try a text browser (if you haven't, already). I tried w3m (it came preinstalled on xubuntu).
I love this thread. Fellow browser geeks! And, being on a Mac, I have a lot to choose from. On OmniWeb, the dropdown menus do appear. OW uses the same rendering engine as Safari and Shiira (Webkit), so presumably in those two browsers (and other Webkit browsers) the dropdown menus also appear.
