Score one for Mozilla

[strredwolf]

For a possible way of doing ads, I pondered if I could reliably determine if a web browser was looking for an image to inline, or just anything. So I tested things, first with normal CGI, then with CGI using Apache's mod_rewrite.

I can do it with Mozilla. It looks like to be asking the server properly, saying "I really like this, this, and this. I'll take that if you don't have those, but if push comes to shove I'll take anything you got."

I can't do it with IE or Opera. They're breaking spec, so to speak. IE just sends "I'll take anything." to me for inlined images, and when I click on 'em, I get "I'll take this, this, this, this, that, this... aw whatever." Opera does the latter and aggressively caches and thinks CGI results will be the same, which is something I *HATE* (and can prove eazily that they're not).

I'm going to have to treat Mozilla special, and IE/Opera as dumb.

Comments

[merryjest.livejournal.com]

I'm rather piqued to see that now you have to buy your browsers. Geez, I'm already having a hard time trying to make ends meet without having to pay for an alternative to AIEEE..er I.E.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Mozilla (at http://www.mozilla.org) is Open Source and is licenced to be free. Opera is pay-for brokenware.

I may want to check Konqueror, see how broken that is.