[plug] OT: Sites bow to Microsoft's browser king

[Simon Scott]

On Monday 22 July 2002 9:11 am, Colin Muller wrote:

> Second, insist on a cross-browser compatibility clause in any future
> contracts with your Web designer. Make a list: on Mac, Windows and
> Linux: Opera 5.x and 6.x, NS 4.x, 6.x and 7.x prerelease, Mozilla 1.0;
> plus on Linux: Konqueror; plus on Windows and Mac: IE 4.x, 5.x, 6.x.
> And then add in that all links must be accessible (if in a different
> way from the map) in lynx. It is possible (although sometimes
> difficult) to achieve functional cross-compatibility for these
> browsers without doing any browser sniffing, and someone advertising
> themselves as a "Web" something, as opposed to "IE" something, should
> be able to do so.


BTW, you forgot one important test.

A lot of ppl browse with Javascript turned off, meaning any JS sniffers will 
fail.

Does anyone have a good way to get around this? It seems overkill to install 
mod perl or php just to parse the browser string.