[Gllug] Website designer who doesn't suck

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Thu Mar 4 18:49:11 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:43:58PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 06:39:29PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > As a point of interest, its actually possible to write browser
> > specific rules without needing to do CSS negotiation on the 
> > server. The trick involves exploiting bugs in various browser
> > CSS parsers. The following page shows a matrix for identifying
> > which bugs you need to exploit for a given circumstance!
> > 
> >   http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/
> 
> I know ... I just think this is kind of hacky.  Server-side browser
> sniffing for the CSS page is easy enough to do.

Unfortunately server side sniffing is not immune to people 
faking their user agent identifier.

Dan.
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