- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:03:48 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Matthew Raymond wrote: > Matthew Thomas wrote: > > "An HTML user agent is any device that interprets HTML documents. User > > agents include visual browsers (text-only and graphical), non-visual > > browsers (audio, Braille), search robots, proxies, etc." > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/conform.html#didx-user_agent> > > Rather broad definition of the term "user", then. By this definition, > Mr. Coffee can be a user. What term would you suggest for user agents > where the user in question is actually a person? The users are people even when the user agent is Google, or a validator, or wget(1), or IE's site download feature. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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