On 2/12/17, Jonathan N. Little <[email protected]> wrote: > flyguy wrote: >> [email protected] wrote on 2/10/2017 2:47 PM: > > <snip> > >>> If you don't have Lightning installed, perhaps it's some other extension >>> adding something to the user-agent string and tripping up their dodgy >>> sniffing. >> >> Bingo! I am using Lightning, and your fix worked for the NYT. I never >> would have found that solution. >> > > Over a decade ago UA browser sniffing was exposed as bad web design > because it was unreliable and very fragile. Why are we back to > relitigating this? It has been proven a to be a "Bad Idea" (TM)
Because doing a half-assed job that gets it right 80% of the time is sooo much easier than figuring out the right way to do it. Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
