[thelist] RE: Mozilla 0.9.9 is out

[.jeff]

mark,

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> From: Mark Howells
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> I'd also think about changing your logic so that you use
> one global stylesheet for everything except NN4. You'll
> run into a lot of problems if you check the User Agent
> name, as Opera often identifies itself as IE and other
> browsers, such as AOL, may identify themselves as
> something totally different than a standard browser.
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masquerading as another browser or not, the substring "opera" is *always* in opera's user_agent string.  so, searching for that first and then searching for msie, gecko, etc. next will give you the results you want.

.jeff

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