[sldev] New to the list with a complicated question.

[Whump Linden]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Anna Gulaev <annagulaev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Whump. Is there a reason you recommend against sniffing headers for the
> user agent? I recognize that some people run browsers that allow them to
> change this, but they are few and they likely don't spoof it to look like
> the SL browser, and if they do, not displaying flash for them probably won't
> cause them physical harm :-)

Yes, one is the user agent spoofing issue, where someone could claim
to be UA with more capabilities than the actual UA has.

The other is future-proofing.

If lack of JavaScript is a concern, there are methods for displaying
alternative content that don't require JavaScript.

Fortunately, WebKit has been implementing some of the HTML5 draft
specification, which makes embedding and displaying alternative
content much easier.

-- whump