Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden,

Sorry I didn't reply.  Your post simply never made it to my server, 
which is freaking me out a bit since that means there could be other 
emails that never make it to my server as well.  I can see it in the 
archives, but it never made it to my inbox and it is nowhere to be found 
in my spam filter.  Makes me *very* nervous.

Anyhow, the post was theoretical, rather than practical.  I guess 
someone who had an axe to grind with Microsoft and didn't mind losing 
business could implement logic that would only run on non-MS browsers.

Pete


Alfredo Delgado wrote:
> Walden,
>
> IE is riddled with bugs and non-standard implementation of standards. You
> have to remember that the purpose of IE was to kill Netscape and protect
> Microsoft's desktop monopoly, not to foster an equal playing ground on a
> world wide web. If you're unwilling to program in a subset of functionality
> common across multiple browsers -- and that IE can do right -- then you have
> to use some schemes to deal with IE whether in XHTML, CSS, or JavaScript.
>
> It used to be that lazy developers would develop web sites that'd tie in to
> non-standard IE functionality and would block out anyone whose User Agent
> didn't report IE. When other browsers duplicated the functionality to deal
> with market realities, they'd still be locked out unless they reported it
> was IE or IE-compatible to match the string likely being checked. Now that
> competition has returned to browsers MS is in a bind to improve IE when
> there's tons of code out there expecting it to be broken based on the User
> Agent. That's a better example of ugliness.
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   
> > wrote:
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> > Pete,
> >
> > Just curious, why would you ever want to be sure it was IE? (as opposed
> > to being sure it supported whatever function you needed in IE)
> >
> > -Walden
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