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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1837661" data-attributes="member: 396914">Websites query any incoming connection for the type of browser that is being used. You can see that in Safari, if you enable the Developer's menu, where you can get to this: [ATTACH=full]30788[/ATTACH]In this mode Safari can emulate any of the listed browsers for the website. The website will respond differently, depending on the browser.Why? Because in the early days of browser wars there were no clear standards or enforcements, so not all of the browsers implemented HTML in the exact same way. A web developer, wanting to test the code would work, would use the Developer mode to do that emulation and allow him/her to test without having to have all those browsers/machines/operating systems. So, those websites are not responding to Brave appropriately. It may be that Brave is too new, or is implementing something differently, or not reporting appropriately. Or any combination, including all of them simultaneously.Thus, it could be that the website is not taking Brave into account, or doesn't recognize it, and is defaulting to not doing the lookup because it doesn't know how Brave will respond to autofill. That would be the same at any autofill site using the same service, I suspect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1837661, member: 396914"] Websites query any incoming connection for the type of browser that is being used. You can see that in Safari, if you enable the Developer's menu, where you can get to this: [ATTACH=FULL]30788[/ATTACH] In this mode Safari can emulate any of the listed browsers for the website. The website will respond differently, depending on the browser. Why? Because in the early days of browser wars there were no clear standards or enforcements, so not all of the browsers implemented HTML in the exact same way. A web developer, wanting to test the code would work, would use the Developer mode to do that emulation and allow him/her to test without having to have all those browsers/machines/operating systems. So, those websites are not responding to Brave appropriately. It may be that Brave is too new, or is implementing something differently, or not reporting appropriately. Or any combination, including all of them simultaneously. Thus, it could be that the website is not taking Brave into account, or doesn't recognize it, and is defaulting to not doing the lookup because it doesn't know how Brave will respond to autofill. That would be the same at any autofill site using the same service, I suspect. [/QUOTE]

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