What's a Browser User-Agent String?

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[scsiiphreak]

looked at only the first 10 seconds of your video...and you are a complete morom

[lockergnome]

As opposed to calling someone a... "morom." Dude, seriously? You're trying to call me a MORON, but come across looking like a total dutchbag instead. Morom.

[ShadowHelper]

Yes Mozilla firefox is the name of your browser. Tiscali Broadband is your internet company.. lol

[chronofusion]

i guess that MOROM, scssiphreak was thinking of Mormons and got brain and tongue tied.LOL. dee dee deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[TheMasterTelevision]

I liked how after you mentioned Java, there was a little rage war over RuneScape lol

[atan0k]

On my personal websites, I always check for the User Agent string on the webserver.

Basically, Apache will always serve the same page to everyone using any version of Internet Explorer.

The page tells them to get a Web Browser and points to all the reasonable options.

[kingcrimson234]

lockergnome isn't even that big of a computer nerd. he's a sham and he's not that smart. i, for example, would pwn him. just sayin'.

[RappingDelight]

@adsicks Table are in the spec for tabular data, not for layouts.

People with IE6 and 7 always get a lesser experience, that's how it is and how it'll always be. You use an old browser, you don't get the whole deal.

The new Fx isn't that great, it keeps on becoming slower and slower, it's why I started using Opera in the first place and now it's the fastest.

For min and max there's always hax. I hate it, but sometimes they have to be done, or feed them a static layout.

[adsicks]

@RappingDelight Its over 200ms better. Until everyone adopts CSS 3 and I can just tell a browser to do a color gradient. Tables WILL cache if the layout is in CSS. Min and max won't work on a parent div in all browsers. And believe it or not, there are more ppl using IE 6&7 than the new Fox. I see stuff running out of div's all over the place nowadays. Tables are in spec. Not using them is just esoterical fantasy...

[RappingDelight]

@adsicks I didn't understand anything from "how can you say" onward. Use more than one reply if you must, the char limit is crazy low.

Unknown height isn't a problem. Don't define it. Just define a min and max (if you must), it'll adjust to whatever is in between.

Tables are never better. Never.

[adsicks]

@RappingDelight Ever see a copyright notice at the bottom of a magazine. They are always small and insignificant. Also, I use text over my logs and they have to be in pixels. It's much smaller graphics wise to use a background sprite and overlay with text than have a big image.

[adsicks]

@RappingDelight @RappingDelight I use one sheet for all pages. I'm designing a template. How do you make a div grow to unknown height of content, like from a php script? You can't. It will always run off the page. My table is far better. How can you say a spec is honorable. Computing is what achieves the goals. Remember w3c's killer app that was to spec and looked completely different in all browsers. What are you like some kind of tech medieval catholic?

[RappingDelight]

@adsicks Once the user has loaded the CSS, they don't need to load it again since it's in their cache. If every page was with tables, they reload that every single fucking time.

If you're HTML grew in size chances are you're doing it wrong. My files always shrunk going from table to clean html, though if you add the css, it tends to be more. It's a small sacrifice considering the benefits. Also, checkout less css, it's sped my work tremendously.