On 12/2/2009 7:53 PM, Paul wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: > (snip) > > A great idea but getting millions of webmasters to change billions of > web sites could be a problem.
Many sites that sniff for a UA string do so for specific versions. That is, they sniff for "Firefox/3" and not for merely "Firefox". When Firefox 4.0 is someday released, they will have to go through some site maintenance. Today, many of them are just now starting to sniff for Chrome. And every time they change a Web page, they must change for all the different browsers for which they are sniffing. Sniffing thus increases the overall maintenance effort for a Web site. There might be some upfront cost for creating a single set of Web pages (both HTML/XHTML and CSS) that have acceptable appearance for all "modern" browsers in place of multiple sets, one for each browser. In the long run, the cost of maintenance will drop significantly. If the pages are W3C-compliant, no new cost would be required when a new browser enters the market. Web site maintenance costs driven by outside circumstances -- by browser developers -- would be eliminated. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
