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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