On 09/10/06, Brian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam, if that's a problem with your user base, then there are issues that
> go beyond the technical.  If my users were that hackish and black-hatted,
> I wouldn't be giving them any front-end code at all if I could avoid it.
> I mean, if people are technically savvy enough to change their user agent
> string, what stops them from overriding the functions that you provide, as
> well?
>
> I say, we split the difference.  Leave jquery's browser detection as is,
> and offer "jUntrustworthy" as a plugin, which overrides the original
> implementation with one that uses object detection.
>
> - Brian

Perhaps I was being a bit paranoid. Most users don't change the user
agent, so perhaps this would be better suited as a plugin and the
current implementation left as it is. It is the rendering engine that
is important, not the browser itself (and all IE-based browsers have
"MSIE" in).

There could always be a plugin that is more specific (which version of
IE, AOL, Firefox etc) for working around bugs/crashes etc.

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