- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:52:08 +0100
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:11:15 +0100, Kornel Lesinski <kornel at osiolki.net> wrote: > User-agent sniffing is a bad practice - it's inaccurate, hurts minority > browsers and is not forward-compatible. Please change your method to use > Accept header, so it won't be affecting any HTML-only user-agents (web > is more than a handful of desktop browsers). Accept method will even > work for MSIE and Lynx when/if they start supporting XHTML. > > Even your regular expressions for User-Agent aren't doing exactly what > you intended, because mod_rewrite does not anchor patterns. While I totally agree that browser sniffing isn't a way to go, I must say that Accept headers cannot be used to resolve this because MSIE claims to support */* in the Accept header that it sends. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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