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Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing

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From Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org>
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Subject Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing
Date Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:10:27 +0100
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David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> writes:

> http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/10/on-user-agent-sniffing.html

| At the very beginning

… was the command line?

| there was only a major and supported browser, Internet Explorer, and
| this had something like 80% or more of market share.

… and that’s why its user agent string starts with ‘Mozilla’.

Citing the article and voicing an opinion on it, however, seems to
indicate that you didn’t find it incomprehensible. Congratulations on
that.

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Yet another appeal for browser sniffing David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-01 04:42 -0700
  Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-01 22:10 +0100
    Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 08:40 +1100
      Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2011-11-02 11:40 +0100
  Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing "S.T." <anon@anon.com> - 2011-11-01 16:28 -0700
    Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-02 11:39 +1100
    Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 07:44 -0700
  Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing Bwig Zomberi <zomberiMAPSONNOSPAM@gmail.invalid> - 2011-11-03 10:14 +0530
    Re: Yet another appeal for browser sniffing David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 07:39 -0700

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