: We have dozens of browsers in our "browser-negotiation" database.
: Including items listing the features that we believe Microsoft's browser
: supports. However until someone proposes a way to tell me via the headers
: that this browser supports '<p align=3Dcenter>' and that this browser
: supports tables but not percentage widths, and this one supports tables
: within tables but not with forms in them; I'm going to have to keep doing
: browser-based presentation. I can live with that. What really gets me
: though is trying to figure out whether I need to send a RealAudio file, a
: WAV file, an AU file or an AIFF file. Why the !@#$% aren't the major
: browser manufacturors sending that helper-application information?
:
: Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617.768.5500
: nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
Does this mean that you will ignore me if my user-agent is not in your
BND ("browser- negotiation database") OR if my request has no user-agent
header line. What if I'm HTTP/0.9 ?
Is this the way HTTP protocol is supposed to work?
Have I missed something? Is "user-agent" *required*?
Have patience with those who are not up to speed. After all, there
are VERY FEW web browsers that are not three years stale with GOPHER
protocol. 8-)
And have patience with those who do not live in a GUI. (I live in
a GUI only about half the time.)
IMHO the content-type (please don't say "media-type") "text/html"
is in serious danger of being stretched beyond recognition.
Many default pages out there are, in fact, "application/x-foobrowser".
Many such pages are useless in the very popular browser "lynx".
And HTTP protocol needs "text/html" to be robust.
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