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• Why Browser Sniffing Sucks

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Tue 23 Dec 2008 at 22:15

  Type

  Blog Entry

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  Since I now have most of my family using Opera, I am hearing more and more about browser sniffing issues with Opera. They tell me that some website will not work for them, so I investigate the issue and, after telling Opera to identify itself as a different browser, I get into the website fine without any rendering or scripting issues to be found. Really, browser sniffing has no place on the web whatsoever. Why would you deny users access when their browser can render the website perfectly? Now, there are cases where browser sniffing is a…