{"id":138,"date":"2006-12-16T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T01:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/2006\/12\/16\/browser-detection-101-back-to-the-basics\/"},"modified":"2006-12-16T23:38:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-17T07:38:29","slug":"browser-detection-101-back-to-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanschiemann.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"browser detection 101: back to the basics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"yahoo Today I saw an “official announcement from Yahoo!”, where it was recommended that I “update” my browser to Internet Explorer 7.<\/p>\n

I could understand this recommendation if I used IE 6 or 5. But I was browsing in Firefox, and i don’t have an interest in a downgrade<\/strong> of my current browsing experience.<\/p>\n

But that was more forgivable than the fact that I’m using a Mac (and no, I was not running from Parallels)!<\/p>\n

It’s a bit surprising to see Yahoo! spending valuable screen real estate on such an untargeted message, instead of employing simple browser detection that has worked in every major browser since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n

So out of curiosity, I decided to click on the official Yahoo! announcement:<\/p>\n

\"Yahoo<\/p>\n

What am I missing here? I can’t see how this would be a positive or intended result for Yahoo! or Microsoft.<\/p>\n


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