Hi Martin,
Martin Keckeis wrote:
i think it's time to deprecate the function get_browser().
The reason is simple: Since the browscap.ini file has grown a lot this
function does need way too much time, see here for example
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12067641/get-browser-slowing-down-page-load-any-alternative
The underlying browscap.ini file is still a very resource to use and there
are very good official packages out there to use it
https://packagist.org/packages/browscap/browscap-php
I also compared the browscap.ini file to other UserAgent parsers around and
it looks still good
http://thadafinser.github.io/UserAgentParserComparison/results/index.html
I'd also support removing get_browser(), but for a different reason: it
encourages user agent sniffing, which is a bad practice that has led to
the mess that is modern User-Agent headers. The web is an open platform
which degrades gracefully, where you can detect if browsers support
features you need and adapt accordingly. Detecting specific browsers is
harmful to competition and not future-proof.
Thanks.
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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/
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