If the foo browser says "works like IE5" but then your page looks bad there, users of the foo browser are going to complain both to you. So "works like IE5" is an OK first step, but as a web developer you really want to know what browser this really is, because you can't trust browser vendors to really exactly be like IE5.
I guess that's why Adobe Flash had so much success. It really provided a very consistent experience across platforms provided everyone had the plug-in. From: George Michaelson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 9:57 AM To: Yoav Nir Cc: Randy Bush; perpass; William Chan Subject: Re: [perpass] HTTP user-agent fingerprinting please don't laugh if I mention TELNET options negotiation or SMTP capabilites exchange.. (I find browser strings fascinating. the sheer volume of 'I may behave like <x>' statements adds up to a mighty mishmash of things none of which directly relate to what I think web code developers wanted, although 'works in IE5' may indeed be "it") -G On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Yoav Nir <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It's not just a set of features. Sure, it all started with Netscape supporting frames whereas Mosaic did not. So it would be nice if it just advertised "Supports: frames". But then IE also supported frames, but if the graphics designer made a web page so that it was nice and pretty and aligned perfectly in Netscape, it looked all screwy in IE, because of differences in spacing within and between frames. So it helped to be able to serve different pages to different browsers. And then came active content, with Java applets and ActiveX and embedded video and javascript/vbscript, and things got worse. It's been getting better in the last few years, but not that much better than you can make a single version of your website. On Sep 15, 2013, at 4:59 AM, Randy Bush <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > < a fair bit off topic > > > forgetting ww2, isn't this the wrong way around? the browser should > speak of which of a well-known feature set it supports, not what it's > 'name' happens to be. > > randy _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass Email secured by Check Point
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