Natural selection browser switch

Olaf Jan Schmidt ojschmidt at kde.org
Thu Mar 13 01:56:58 UTC 2003


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[Mat Colton]
> today I read you are using a http header browser switch to determine
> which CSS to deliver. This is very insecure and a HACK!

No, we have a switch to determine whether to deliver CSS at all or not. If 
you find a better solution, then let us know, but the suggestion you make 
doesn't help, unfortunately.

> Please use the
> "natural selection" via CSS and JS DOM. First of all it is not a hack
> compared to a http browser switch and second it works. :)

This does not work if you include several style sheets to let the user 
choose between them. Any other ideas?

The test I implemented to check for the correct browser is pretty 
standard, I searched the web for possible problems but did not find any 
browsers that would match the Netscape 4.x useragent without adding 
"compatible".

But as I said, if you know a way to hide multiple style sheets from 
Netscape (not possible with @import), then please let me know.

Olaf.

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org

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