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#18
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
As I tried to explain: no. This is not the only possible cause.

a) The version of FF on your desktop and on the tablet are not the same, and the UA-string the browser sends isn't.
b) The operating system isn't the same, even if you would be using a desktop based on a Linux kernel.

So if Apple returned to its habit of delivering different versions of their site for different browser/OS combinations (and maybe even blocking unknown browsers), the HTML your desktop browser receives might be completely different from what the tablet's browser gets.

This is not an assumption, actually I have no reason but my past experience with Apple to come up with this. It's just to point out that it's not necessarily the browser's fault if a certain site doesn't work when it works on another PC.
Delivering different versions of websites for different browsers is old school 20th century thinking to help IE render. Websites must be written to standards something Apple say they do. It's the browser which must adhere to the same standards to display correctly. One reason IE8 has been forced to adopt web standards above its own is the increased presure to do so. Opera and Safari both meet ACID3 tests a few months back. FF failed but is very close. IE was still a way behind.

How does one get in touch with the browser development team to encourage its development to standards and make the new webmail site work?