Monthly Archives: April 2006

Browser Detection Part Doh! (will I ever learn?)

Posted on April 26, 2006 by bc

Recently, I wrote about browser detection complaining about vendor/version detection strategies… While converting my old “Your browser is out of date” messaging on this site from using a page redirect to an in-page message div, I realized that I had … Continue reading →

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User Agent String Sidebar updated

Posted on April 22, 2006 by bc

The ua sidebar has been updated to include user agent strings for Firefox 1.5.0.2, Firefox 1.0.8, Mozilla 1.7.13, BonEcho (Firefox 2), Minefield (Firefox 3), SeaMonkey 1.1, SeaMonkey 1.5, Camino 1.0.1, and Internet Explorer 7. If you already have the sidebar … Continue reading →

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Browser Detection Part Duh (will they ever learn?)

Posted on April 21, 2006 by bc

Recently, mozilla.org began changing the User Agent strings of the development versions of Firefox on the Gecko 1.8 branch and the 1.9 trunk to reflect their eventual release some time far in the future as Firefox 2 and Firefox 3. … Continue reading →

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Spider 0.0.1.14

Posted on April 21, 2006 by bc

Spider 0.0.1.14 has been released. It contains a minor change to prevent multiple invocations of the init function in spider.js when loaded in Thunderbird’s preview pane. Extension updating is still borked.

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Spider 0.0.1.13

Posted on April 20, 2006 by bc

I did a quick release of Spider last night to support loading it in Thunderbird. No other changes were made. Unfortunately, the update mechanism didn’t work so I will need to figure that out and post a new version. If … Continue reading →