[thelist] Optimising code by UA vs. Proxy caches - week 2 (was server-side browser-sniffing a bad idea?)

[Erik Mattheis]

>  > Questions remaining...
>>
>>  1) does simply adding the date/time to the query-string force the
>>  request to go all the way to the server (i.e. will it succeed in
>  > bypassing the proxy-cache)?

That's the only surefire way to go.

The last site I did I document.write a different stylesheet for NN ...

<script language="JavaScript">
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mozilla') > -1 && 
navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') == -1) {
	document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles_ns.css" />');
}
else {
	document.write('<link rel="stylesheet" href="/styles.css" />');
}
</script>

Works fine ... another unintentional advantage is that a visually 
impared user complained that they couldn't change the size of the 
text (stylesheets use px) ... so they can just turn JavaScript off 
and get no stytlesheet.
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