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Re: determining screen resolution over the web

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On 7/31/2014 6:40 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I thought you were asking how to size things for a device that could
> have significantly different screen resolutions.  If you want to
> determine the browser you can use the HTTP_USER_AGENT environment
> variable and select your response accordingly.

The penalty for suggesting using the User-Agent information to send data 
is execution by being electroplated.

More seriously, though, just don't do it.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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determining screen resolution over the web Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-31 15:33 -0700
  Re: determining screen resolution over the web Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-31 16:02 -0700
    Re: determining screen resolution over the web Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-31 16:15 -0700
      Re: determining screen resolution over the web Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-31 16:40 -0700
        Re: determining screen resolution over the web Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-08-01 09:41 -0500
          Re: determining screen resolution over the web Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-08-01 08:12 -0700
        Re: determining screen resolution over the web Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-08-01 11:01 -0700
        Re: determining screen resolution over the web Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-01 16:07 -0400
  Re: determining screen resolution over the web Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-31 22:22 -0400
  Re: determining screen resolution over the web Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2014-08-04 15:20 +0300

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