Re: Tables and non-table-able browsers

Stephen Uhler (Stephen.Uhler@eng.sun.com)
Thu, 10 Aug 1995 09:04:03 -0700

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>>>Michael Johnson said:
>
> I've encountered a couple of pages now (I'm sure there are others) that look
> at the User-Agent header and only send tables to Netscape. This is annoying,
> to say the least, since I have a browser that does tables just fine.
>
> Michael Johnson
> Relay Technology, Inc.
>
I have the same problem with my browser. What I resorted to doing is
sending different User-Agent headers depending upon the circumstances.
If I want tables, Some sites *require* that I say I'm Netscape. On
the other hand, over a slow link, I can say I'm Lynx and get pages
with fewer images.

I would encourage folks NOT to use the User-Agent header as a feature
selection mechanism, but use the Accept headers instead.

Stephen Uhler
stephen.uhler@sun.com

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