[thelist] user agent strings

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>actually, i think i can parse the user agent string myself okay, what i
>*really* need is a list of the more common user agent strings so that i can
>make decisions about which style sheet to feed them

I don't have a list, but I give some theoretical starting points at 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html?detect.html

>using @import as a hiding strategy works okay, i guess, but there are just
>too many bugs in all the browsers, you end up whittling things down so that
>you're basically left with only body background colour and font face

Don't entirely agree. If you allow some breaking of styles in Explorer 4 on 
Mac and Netscape 4, you can use a general style sheet. I hardly ever use 
browser-specific styling.

ppk
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