- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 14:23:04 -0000
- To: <www-dom@w3.org>
"Jesse McCarthy" > Neil Laurance <neil_laurance@yahoo.co.uk> wrote on 11/9/01 8:54:44 AM: > >Jesse, you are absolutely right. However, so long as NS and Microsoft state > >which object represents Document, then I see this as a faily trivial issue, for > >exampe: > > > >getBrowserType(); // some function to determine browser type based on > >navigator object Which is an utterly prepostrous idea that leads to nothing but errors, and severe barriers of entry to new browser, who either have to spoof their user agent string (as Opera does.) or not have support for legacy content. Please do not promote this stupid technique and complain to anyone who does, object detection is the appropriate method, it's more reliable now and supports future browsers which browser detection doesn't. > I disagree that it is trivial. What is the use of standards if you still have > to write code forks to accomodate every browser known to man? The standard doesn't specify it, however the "standard" that browser vendors actually work to does specify it. Jim.
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