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Don't Use PHP for Browser Detection
Written by liyanting on date 17 August 2010 in Html Introduction .
Don’t Use PHP for Browser Detection
By Louis Lazaris on August 16th, 2010
Categories: Web Design Articles, Web Standards & Best Practices | 15 Comments
In the comments of a recent article discussing conditional comments someone mentioned that they prefer to use PHP to detect which browser (user agent) and/or operating system is in use, then they display a custom class for the <body> tag and target the browser accordingly in their CSS.
I’ve known for some time now that this is wrong. I was told that a user agent can be faked, so the people I’ve worked ...