[8015] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: distinguishing browser types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wmperry@spry.com)
Sat Apr 22 13:55:29 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 13:44:48 +0500
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Kee Hinckley writes:
[...]
> Which leads me to another question. Are there any browsers out there that
> actually set the Accept fields based on the helper applications? I know
> Netscape doesn't. It makes it rather difficult to determine what formats
> can be sent to a browser.
Emacs-w3, AIR Mosaic, OmniWeb, and a few others (haven't checked out
EMosaic for a while, sorry).
The main problem is not that they set the accept headers wrong (I don't
think netscape does - are you sure its broken?), but that they do not
specify the maxsize, maxtime or quality attributes on the frigging
things. Which can completely hose things when you then send a */* at the
end, which netscape and mosaic/X both do.
-Bill Perry
