[jira] Commented: (TRINIDAD-1109) Support non-standard user agents

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Andrew Robinson commented on TRINIDAD-1109:
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The use case for @agent unknown IMO would be much like the HTML <NOFRAMES> or <NOSCRIPT> tags. It gives the ability for web developers to be able to catch the use case of notifying the user that they are not supported.

For example:

I write and application that only support FF3 because I am an open source geek.

Now, to be "friendly" to users, I create a page to let non FF3 users know that their browser stinks and is not secure.

In that page, I can either (1) use a bunch of custom CSS style classes to style the page in the Trinidad skin, (2) use inlineStyle on the page or (3) use @agent to target the browser.

Of the 3 options, #3 is the most maintainable and extentable. By this I mean that I can (1) create more error pages or unsupported pages than one without having to re-skin them, (2) I don't have to maintain possibly large numbers of CSS classes for unsupported browsers, the components are skinned correctly and (3) I have one place to make changes to these pages if I want to completely redo them.

I don't think that the use case would be very frequent, but in the same regard that NOFRAMES and NOSCRIPT have a place, I think a notion of an unsupported or unknown @agent has a place as well.

Well that is my 2 cents.



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