Safari User Agent iphone and more

Safari has one feature will allow you to make the browser behave like any other user-agents(IE, FF, Opera etc). This is done be changing the User Agent in the develop menu.
Develop -> User Agent, if you dont find this DEVELOP menu item in the menu bar, click on Edit->Preferences and add this.

Once i faced a cross browser issue in IE, for one of our applications, i did a fix and it worked well in IE, but when i changed the user agent in Safari to IE, the fix failed. Then rose a situation, where it became essential for me to handle this separately(Safari with USER agent as IE). I noticed a peculiar rather interesting thing, in dojo, there is a statement dojo.render.html.mozilla or dojo.render.html.safari will return a boolean in normal scenario whereas in Safari-User Agent, it will return a array of objects, so with that we conditionally detected the actual browser and made the fix.

This was one bugging thing about the Safari -User Agent, but there is a interesting thing about this, which will fetch you free stuff, read your favorite magazines online. You want to know how? check this here.

Thanks Subbu for sharing this in Reader.