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thehairlesscat
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Registered: ‎04-20-2011
My Carrier: AT&T

Browser emulation?

I want to connect to my corporate website.  The website requires Internet Explorer 6.0+ for connection.  Is there a way to change the browsers emulation on the playbook to emulate IE 6.0+ ?

 

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JSanders
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Registered: ‎04-01-2008
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Re: Browser emulation?

I have not found a way to emulate other browsers.
I, too, wish this were an option, and maybe it can be added.




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Xandrex
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Registered: ‎07-29-2008
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Re: Browser emulation?

@thehairlesscat :

can you give the URL of that website?

You have two possible issues here:

  • either the website checks for the User-Agent (= the browser declares "I am Firefox" or "I am BlackBerry6" or "I am Internet Explorer 8"). Changing the User-Agent is possible on most Pc browsers, and also on the BlackBerry Browser 4 and BlackBerry Browser 5. This feature has been removed for BlackBerry Browser 6 if I recall correctly. I do not know yet if this action (called UA spoofing) is possible on the PlayBook.
  • or the website relies on an ActiveX applet. If that is the case, Internet Explorer is mandatory.

 

For your information the User Agent of the PlayBook browser is :

 


Mozilla 5.0 (PlayBook; U; RIM Tablet OS 1.0.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/0.0.1 Safari/534.8+

 


 




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