Hello Joel, Before you read my comments below, let me say that I'm not trying to prove you *wrong* or even express disagreement with the points you made; I'm just interested in your reasons.
On 12 Feb 2004 at 20:11, joel boonstra wrote: > Hopefully you're aware that $HTTP_USER_AGENT is an unreliable variable, > in that it is sent by the client, and can contain virtually anything. Sure, but why would a user want to fake their browser signature? The worst that could happen is that the offending user would be redirected to a page that wouldn't look good in her/his browser. Or am I missing something here? > I saw a response letting you know how to do this, but I would > recommend not sending people to different pages based on which > browser/OS they're using. Why not? Isn't that what most of the big web sites do? > It should be possible to use CSS/(X)HTML to present your content in a > way that is accessible to whichever browser accesses your site. IMHO, > browser-sniffing to serve different content is a bad idea. What about obsolete browsers that don't handle CSS too well (or not at all)? We developers would love to have all our visitors use the most recent browsers, preferably ones with a good implementation of the JavaScript DOM and XSLT transformations, but that's unfortunately not what happens in the real world. Could you throw in another 2 cents? :o) Erik -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
