[thelist] Safari details + UA string (was Apple releases new browser for OS

[Peter-Paul Koch]

> > Don't use a browser detect. Ever. For whatever reason.
>
>Hi ppk,
>
>As much as I respect your work as a JS coder (and see what your remark was
>meaningn to say: check for properties rather than for browsers by name, on
>which I wholeheartedly agree), I don't really see how one could do for
>server-side thingies, if not through the UA string.

The reason for a server side browser detect is usually to decide which style
sheet or js file to send to the browser. This is as bad as using a
JavaScript browser detect to document.write the correct LINK or SCRIPT tag.

The only valid reason for a server side browser detect is to actually detect
which browsers come to your site and to store this information.

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