Re: Tables and non-table-able browsers

Michael Johnson (michaelj@relay.relay.com)
Thu, 10 Aug 95 07:10:46 EDT


>I've got a document which has a table in it. (This is just on my
>local machine at the moment).
>
>Can I, and if so - how, deliver different versions of the document
>to different browsers so that netscape/arena etc. get a version
>with a <table> in, and others get a <pre>-formatted asciified
>version of the table?

The right way to do this is to look at the ACCEPT values and see if one of
them is "text/html; version=3" and send the table version if it is. I suppose
you could also check for Netscape specifically and using User-Agent and send
it the table version. But don't base your decision solely on User-Agent.

I'd suggest you read the hypertext documentation for your server and study
up on content negotiation.

I've encountered a couple of pages now (I'm sure there are others) that look
at the User-Agent header and only send tables to Netscape. This is annoying,
to say the least, since I have a browser that does tables just fine.

Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.