[9195] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Netscape 2.0 beta MS windows 95 virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Mon Nov 6 11:22:26 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 11:12:01 -0500
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 6:33 PM 11/4/95, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>For all those who content-negotiate based on user-agent (ick! ptooey!)
>you'll love this.
I'd love to content-negotiate based on something rational, but I've yet to
see a commonly used browser tell me anything rational about what it can do.
The least we could do is come up with a proposed standard for the UserAgent
field though.
Agent/Version (platform info)
is common but not universal, and a lot of people leave out the actual platfo=
rm.
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617.768.5500
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
