- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:11:39 -0400
- To: Glenn Linderman <v+html@g.nevcal.com>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 3/31/11 11:20 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote: > It would be highly friendly if CSS required the browsers to "man up" to > what version of what browser they actually are, so that as their > deficiencies come to light they can easily be detected and compensated > for rather than forcing the use of browser-specific CSS, Javascript, or > ugly hacks. Mozilla would be very unlikely to implement such a thing, even if it were to be specified. On the contrary, we're actively working on removing most versioning information from our User-Agent string as well. I think you're making the fundamental mistake of assuming that if the functionality were available then it would be used well, on average. That's not what we're seeing with User-Agent sniffing, and I see little evidence that it would happen here. While it's _possible_ to correctly use version information, in practice it seems too difficult for most authors. -Boris
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