Pages Tagged “versioning”
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- Browser Sniffing Strikes Again!
Opera 10 will pretend to be Opera 9.80 in order to work around websites that only see the first digit of the version number.
- Double-Digit Danger
Andrew Gregory points out that some browser detection scripts might have trouble when Opera 10 eventually rolls around. (Edit: Hallvord also comments.) Why? Because one of the easiest, ways of testing for a version number is to do look for the the “Browser n” or “Browser/n” patterns. The problem is that this strategy only grabs the […]
- What comes after X?
A few years ago, it seemed like everyone was using X in their software versions. Mac OS X. Windows XP with DirectX and ActiveX*. Flash MX, ColdFusion MX, and anything else by Macromedia MX. Macromedia managed to confuse things by releasing two rounds of MX versions, such as Flash MX, Flash MX 2004 (essentially versions 6 and 7). It’s fallen a bit out of […]
- Who needs version numbers, anyway?
Just a day after Firefox decided to jump from 1.1 to 1.5 (triggering far more discussion than the numbering change really deserved), Microsoft has announced the official name for Longhorn: Windows Vista. Okaaay. Yeah, I can see the connection: a vista is something you see through a window. But at that point, why not just […]