I'm curious if you have submitted a patch to remove the use of navigator.userAgent?
Brandon On 9/20/06, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/7/06, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9/7/06, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How about sharing the headaches and we'll look into it? > > > > The heavy use of navigator.userAgent is my biggest concern with > > maintainance problems. I avoid navigator.userAgent like the plague. > > Using it usually means revisting code over and over again as different > > browsers spoof as other browsers. > > It has been two weeks since I posted this concern and DHH's blog > article today inspired me to be persistant with what is good > criticism. I'm curious why there is a lack of interest in removing > navigator.userAgent from Scriptaculous. Is it because Scriptaculous > developers do not understand how unreliable this technique is? Is it > because working on some browsers for the time being is good enough? > This is "the low hanging fruit" to make Scriptaculous much better as > browser sniffing is the biggest no-no in creating good JavaScript. > > http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.html > > http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html > > Peter > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
