- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 21:00:07 -0500
- To: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net>, "Vadim Plessky" <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
- Cc: <sethmr@bellatlantic.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Bob, if this is done correctly, lynx will be seen as non java and served accordingly. We won't miss anything because it will be provided. I agree about the future though. Even now, you can hide your user agent from being sent in the header of the request. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net> To: "Vadim Plessky" <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru> Cc: <sethmr@bellatlantic.net>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 8:49 PM Subject: Re: Some questions from CHI-WEB people On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Vadim Plessky wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2001 22:00, Seth Rothberg wrote: > [...] > > Can you please consider attached sniffer (browser detection) code which I > Of course, you need to have JavaScript enabled to get this code working :-) > // but you can't do any on-page browser detection without JavaScript, anyway. But Javascript is not normally on in Lynx. (in fact I don't know how to enable it in Lynx or if it is even possible) > You should make 4 branches of code if you want support all existing browsers > It should be like this > > if ( DOM) { ... dom code } > else if ( doc_all ) { ... document.all code) > else if ( doc_layers) { ... document.layers code, for NN 4.x } > else { ... all other browsers, supposely without DHTML support } > > current userAgents say nothing about browser capabilities, so it's useless to > detect userAgent in most cases. > And there is no warrantry that future versions of browsers will provide any > info in userAgent at all... I say it again, there should be no assumption what so ever that there is any user side support for anything. Bob ASCII Ribbon Campaign accessBob NO HTML/PDF/RTF in e-mail accessys@smartnospam.net NO MSWord docs in e-mail Access Systems, engineers NO attachments in e-mail, *LINUX powered* access is a civil right *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# *#*#*# THIS message and any attachements are CONFIDENTIAL and may be privledged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, Please notify the sender as soon as possible. Please DO NOT READ, COPY, USE, or DISCLOSE this communication to others and DELETE it from your computer systems. Thanks
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