On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Lex Spoon wrote: > > > In any case, you could always modify the Swiki to detect Scamper and send > > a slightly modified project, either in the normal superswikish way, or > > with slightly enhanced "publish" buttons. > > Oh, please don't! The Project Swiki is already doing the right thing > and giving very clear instructions to the browser on what to do, and > Scamper could certainly follow those instructions. Having the *server* > figure this out means you have to constantly modify the server as new > browsers come out. [snip]
True, but so? :) Detecting user-agent is something of a hack, but it can be a very useful one. Personally, I'd like to have that for use with *normal* swikis, though content negotiation is prolly the right way to do this. And it's not *quite* true that you have to modify the sever for new browsers...if the browsers forge their user-agent. Abuse, yes, but often a useful one ;) Cheers, Bijan Parsia.
