On Aug 26, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Aug 25, 8:10 pm, David Brodbeck <bro...@u.washington.edu> wrote:Ultimately the problem is there's no way to easily distinguish between "Mozilla-style" and "IE-style" browsers, I suppose. I think it's a little unreasonable to expect them to have a list of the IDstrings of every single niche browser someone might happen to be using.Given that the problem is caused by IE-style browsers, which all tend to identify as IE, why not apply it to IE only instead?
Well, yes and no. A lot of these sites want a particular plugin, and plugins tend to be specific to individual browsers.