Closed Bug 660600 Opened 14 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Rewrite/do new documentation about browser feature detection

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: Miscellaneous, defect, P1)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
API: Miscellaneous
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: gerv, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: u=webdev p=2 c=API)

The only thing on MDC regarding browser sniffing and feature detection is this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Browser_Detection_and_Cross_Browser_Support which was written in 2003. It also buries the lede, putting the things you _should_ do about 8 pages in. Background: someone emailed licensing@mozilla.org, asking about the licence to code here: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type_oo.html That page says itself that it is obsolete, and points to here: http://www-archive.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/index.html but that page is also on an obsolete server. I searched MDN instead but only found the above. If we want to discourage people from UA sniffing, or at least make them use upwardly-compatible code, we need to have good docs and provide good code :-) Gerv
Component: Documentation Requests → Documentation
Component: Documentation → General
Product: Mozilla Developer Network → Developer Documentation
Priority: -- → P1
Whiteboard: u=webdev p=0
Component: General → API
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Whiteboard: u=webdev p=0 → u=webdev p=0 c=API
Whiteboard: u=webdev p=0 c=API → u=webdev p=2 c=API
I linked to a more modern page at the beginning of the article and archived it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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