browser sniffing

[Hal Burgiss]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:29 AM, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is wget the same as ruby mechanize or Java (fill in the blank), aside
> fromt the user agent string?
>

Same? No. Some, maybe significant, overlap in functionality, yes.


>
> Looking at:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_sniffing#Client-side_sniffing
>
>
> I'm guessing that most major sites don't just look at the string, but
> also have various tests for the browser?
>

Depending on what the application needs to know / do, then it would have to
direct query the browser for capabilities and feature support, with
something like modernizr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernizr


-- 
Hal
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