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On Mon, 1 May 1995, Dan Hontz wrote:

> Scott Heiferman:
> 
> >> Split your content at the beginning. Guide the latest-Netscape people to
> >> your coolest, most-cutting-edge stuff, and send those with old Mosaic, any
> >> online service browser, or even Lynx,  to another set of pages.
> 
> >Even better than "guiding" them to your split content, use
> >"browser-recognition" software.  This software will let you automatically
I'm just a bit ol' fashioned, I like to put the conditional in one spot 
and then call the appropriate subroutine.  All those conditionals on 
every display, dialogue, and whistle gets a bit ugly to edit and debug.

> >serve up different pages specifically optimized for the browser being used
> >by tghe visitor (e.g. Netscapers get the proper extensions and JPEGs, while
> >visitors from Prodigy or -- soon -- AOL, for example, get something
> >optimized for them).
The important thing is that it is possible to code to support the various 
browsers without knocking yourself out with dialogue.

> >This eliminates a "Before we let you in, tell us what browser you're
> >using..." intro page.
It's still a good idea to have the dialogue page as a final default,
in case you have a wierd browser that your conditionals don't recognize.

> Interesting -- I wasn't aware this sort of thing was out there. Can you
> point me to some pages that are running this recognition software? 

some of the DowVision pages have this.  Unfortunately, a few may have 
fallen through the cracks

	Rex B


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu May  4 02:44:12 1995