On Friday 17 July 2009 15:25:28 Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Cl?ment<cvollet at gmail.com> wrote: > >> This is in Safari 4 with Javascript definitely enabled. ?Using > >> Javascript for OS detection doesn't seem reliable - better to do it > >> server-side. > > > > Well, we need to find a proper solution yes. For now, it should looks better > > when javascript is enabled and the OS isn't found with a newer version (just > > shows the message, and not the buttons). > > > > The thing is, if javascript is disable, it will show the four buttons (we > > can > > merge the macos one with the jws, so it will be only 3). However, this is > > the > > behaviour of http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/. > > > > And since we're not using php anymore, I don't think we can do it server > > side. > > Isn't the plan to do this on Google's AppEngine? If so, then we > should be able to use server-side code, albeit not PHP.
Right now we use zero server side code. IMHO that is a good thing, it greatly reduces the resources required to serve a page regardless of what platform we are on (e.g. Google App Engine bills for both bandwidth and CPU). Javascript can work perfectly well for OS detection, it is simply a question of "write once, debug everywhere", unless any javascript guru can contradict this? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090718/22eee8e3/attachment.pgp>
