If you were going to store a user agent in a database, how large would you accomdate for? I found this technet article which recommends keeping UA under 200. It doesn’t look like this is defined in the HTTP specification at least not that I found. My UA is already 149 characters, and it seems … Read more
I want to bounce users of our web site to an error page if they’re using a version of Internet Explorer prior to v9. It’s just not worth our time and money to support IE pre-v9. Users of all other non-IE browsers are fine and shouldn’t be bounced. Here’s the proposed code: if(navigator.appName.indexOf(“Internet Explorer”)!=-1){ //yeah, … Read more
How can I find the OS name and OS version using JavaScript? 17 Answers 17
All popular browsers’ user agent strings, even Internet Explorer’s, start with Mozilla/. Why is this the case? 6 Answers 6
I don’t know if I just have some kind of blind spot or what, but I’ve read the OAuth 2 spec many times over and perused the mailing list archives, and I have yet to find a good explanation of why the Implicit Grant flow for obtaining access tokens has been developed. Compared to the … Read more
Closed. This question needs to be more focused. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question How can I detect if a user is viewing my web site from a mobile … Read more
Is there a standard way for a web server to be able to determine a user’s timezone within a web page? Perhaps from an HTTP header or part of the user-agent string? 27 s 27 There are no HTTP headers that will report the clients timezone so far although it has been suggested to include … Read more
