Category Archives: Evangelism

Yahoo! and the evils of Vendor/Version Browser Detection

Vendor/Version browser detection strikes again! When attempting to view the new Yahoo! home page in the development version of of Firefox 2 (also known as Bon Echo), I was presented with the following lovely page: If Yahoo! had made the … Continue reading

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MSNBC and the evils of Vendor/Version Browser Detection

bug 334957 is an example of the evils of Vendor/Version browser detection in action. MSNBC uses a script to implement their pull out menus using DHTML. The menu works fine in IE and Firefox, but fails in Camino, and the … Continue reading

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

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

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?)

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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