On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tony Rolfe wrote: > WTF is this spoofing all about? I thought it as simply telling lies > to the other end when It says "What sort of Browser are you?" "Oh, > I'm MSIE version 4.0" you reply with fingers crossed. > > But there must be more to it than that. No ,that's it. All spoofing does is change the browser's User-Agent identifier. This is sent when you request a page and in resposne to certain JavaScript requests. Some lame "webmasters" test the name of the browser to see if it can doi what they want, because they're too lazy or incompetent to test the actual capabilities of the browser. ~Spoofing effectively sticks a "this does work you idiot" label on the browser. > Also, What is the best Spoof to have as default and how do you know > when to change it (and what to?)? None. It's a kludge to get round bad practices, so it shouls only be used sparingly. ~Sppofing as IE5 doesn't give a briowser the capabilities of IE5. If you visit a site that works with all browser but adds browser-specific enhancements, spoofing will cause all sorts of problems. Turn it off until you need it. > JavaScript. I remember, a year or so back before V3 Etc came out > that the Amiga community was screaming for JS. Now, at the first > sign of trouble, the advice is to turn it off. This is all too > confusing for a bear of very little brain. > Leaving aside the fact that the Amiga has had JavaScript for almost three years.. :) It's another case of a good idea spoilt by a refusal to stick to the standards. Companies think they can do better than the standards, so everything becomes fragmented and incompatible. > Finally, I've found that ignoring frames speeds up everything like > crazy ( and also gives a much more displayable image on a 256 x 640 > screen). Is there any problem with doing this? Only that many sites are unusable without frames. A good site won`t require them. -- Neil _____________________________________________________________ NetConnect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an 'unsubcribe' message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
