[TYPO3-dev] BrowserInfo going beserk...

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Jigal,

Jigal van Hemert schrieb:
> Hi Steffen,
> 
> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>> i looked to this, and right - redmond has an own strategy for UA strings.
> 
> What a surprise that they did something in their own way ;-)
>

yes, i'm really surprised :D

>> I already fixed and wrote a testcase for IE using strings from this site:
>> http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Internet%20Explorer/
> 
> Nice catch!
> 
> Still a choice to make: useragentstring.com recognizes the (compatible; 
> MSIE 7.0 ... part as being MSIE 8 in IE7 compatibility mode. This is 
> correct and is what you need for statistics. But when it comes to layout 
>  (and maybe behaviour) decisions then it should be seen as MSIE 7.
> 

i didn't fully understand it, it seems that the (compatibility ...) is 
part of every msie version, which seems to say "There is a compatibility 
mode ..." - do you examined what really is sended in compatibility mode, 
so how to detect?

vg Steffen