- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:20:21 -0700
- To: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@ACM.org>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>, "Robert Neff" <robneff@home.com>, WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, subir@crl.com
At 11:09 AM 7/24/1999 , Leonard R. Kasday wrote: >What do the brower sniffer segregators typically do if they encounter a >browser they don't recognize, e.g. >Supreme-Ultimate/#.#.# libwww--XX/#.# >If the sniffer defaults to thinking "This must be a whiz bang state of the >art browser I'll send it everything I've got" then the lynx users would >avoid the text-reservation, without violating copyright. As I understand it, most browser sniffing programs regard only MSIE and Netscape as "state of the art" and assume everything else is broken, incapable stuff. While this is actually a semi- sensible thing to do, it leads for annoyances for Opera users like myself. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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