"Google uses a server-side selection script based on the User-Agent request header, rather than the *.nocache.js using navigator.userAgent on the client-side)"
This sounds like a very nice optimisation. Do you know if there is any plugin for doing this in a servlet container /jsp? How could find/generate the mapping for "user.agent" -> permutation Sorry for being offtopic. On Sunday, May 11, 2014 1:27:37 AM UTC+3, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > Opera on Linux is basically dead. > There's not been a non-security-only or non-crash-fix-only release for 18 > months (http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unified/1210/) > Opera has moved to Chromium for more than a year and still not released > anything on Linux. Either they waited for the Aura port (first appearance > in the latest Opera release, so maybe there'll be a Linux release soon, at > last) or they just don't care. > > That said, Google Groups and Google Flight Search fallback to the gecko1_8 > permutation in Opera 12 (with a warning message that it might break), so we > should probably make it possible at least (Google uses a server-side > selection script based on the User-Agent request header, rather than the > *.nocache.js using navigator.userAgent on the client-side) > Would you mind opening an issue about it? > Maybe there's a workaround though: it might be as easy as defining a > "unknown" (the value returned by the property generator) value for the > "user.agent" property that falls back to gecko1_8 (just like ie9 falls back > to ie8): i.e. <extend-property name="user.agent" values="unknown" > fallback-value="gecko1_8" />; and then you could use deferred-binding > specifically for that "unknown" value to display a warning message, and you > could collapse "unknown" and "gecko1_8" values into the same permutation. > Worth a try IMO if you care about it. > > On Friday, May 9, 2014 8:14:55 PM UTC+2, Robert J. Carr wrote: >> >> This just burned me. Just curious why you couldn't have it load the file >> from firefox or webkit instead of just doing nothing? Better to deal with >> potential errors than to be a total non-starter. >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/ec6b6be5-2c0e-4524-8f40-da6c557db576%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
