a ramblings
I think there's a lot of outdated information out there about user agents: the landscape has changed with Mozilla, which renders CSS beautifully-- as well or better than IExplore. From a design perspective it's a godsend: a CSS standard you can take seriously.
So right now, barring mods for things like embedded devices and WAP, berylium does two checks against $session->userAgent: is this the berylium cachebot? and is this Mozilla < 5.0?
If it finds the cachebot, http-engine datestamps the render at the bottom of the page.
And if it finds Netscape4.x, it munges all the "padding: *;" tags out of CSS so that tables aren't horribly broken.
I'm all for adding other checks as you need them, just let me know.
By Chris Snyder on September 13, 2002 at 3:21pm