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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 10/23/06 23:18
Scripsit Gérard Talbot:
> jaydev wrote :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for code to detect and redirect to the corresponding
>> browser download page if the clients uses old version, could anyone
>> have a sample code for this?
>
> Hello jaydev,
>
> You have an interesting and worthy post in there. It's definitely a
> good question.
Well, it might be a good _question_. The correct _answer_, though, is that
such efforts are a waste of everyone's time, and worse.
The page author would just upset and throw out some part of potential users.
If he somehow managed to make someone update his browser, this would still
distract from the site's own content.
Besides, the detection is bound to fail, and the redirects are bound to take
users to wrong pages. Maybe not immediately, but next month or next year. If
you can make me believe that authors who write browser-sniffing and
browser-redirection code will actually _maintain_ the monstrosity they
create, you might just as well try making me believe in elves, Santa Claus,
the Great Pumpkin, and even politicians' promises before elections.
--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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