Re: Browser detection

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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:24:33AM +0000, Earle Martin wrote:
> 
> Uh... Netscape 1.89? Let's have a look at that version string.
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla
> Firebird/0.6.1 StumbleUpon/1.89
> 
> Oh look. It's taken the beginning and the end of the string - the end
> happening to be the version number of StumbleUpon (that SU appended without
> asking me, and I hate it for doing so, as an aside).

Well, ok, but in their defence, browser version strings are COMPLETELY
INSANE AND CRACK-FUELLED. And of course it's far too late for standards to
get written for this stuff...


.tom

• Browser detection Earle Martin 10:24 on 22 Dec 2003
  • Re: Browser detection Earle Martin 10:25 on 22 Dec 2003
  • Tom Insam 13:23 on 22 Dec 2003
    • Earle Martin 14:00 on 22 Dec 2003
      • too deep to show

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