Re: Browser detection

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From: Gavin Estey
Subject: Re: Browser detection
Date: 16:57 on 22 Dec 2003
On Monday, December 22, 2003 9:00 AM, Earle Martin
<hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Seriously, I'd say that the sheer crack-fuelled nature of browser
> version strings is a really good reason for version "detection" not
> to be done at all and the extra effort expended instead on, perhaps,
> making websites that aren't actually shit.

I wanted to buy a lamp and after a quick search on Google I ended up on a
promising looking site. Problem was none of the links worked. I clicked
around for a bit before realizing what I was looking at was a screenshot of
their homepage with a little notice underneath that told me that as I was
using an unsupported web browser (Safari) that I had to go and download
Internet Explorer before I was allowed to visit their site.

What kind of fuckwits are making websites these days?

Gavin.

There's stuff above here

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