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Re: [Lynx-dev] BUG Report
From: |
Keith Bowes |
Subject: |
Re: [Lynx-dev] BUG Report |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:04:59 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Je 2011-Okt-13 je 08:10, David Woolley skribis:
>
> The comments people make about forging the user agent is that if
> browsing statistics never show Lynx, web site developers will
> conclude that no-one uses it, so they can happily continue to write
> Ecmascript applications that only run on the main GUI browsers.
>
Too many web pages do this already. They tell you to enable JS,
regardless of whether you're using a graphical or text browser. Of
course, historically, JS has been a leading cause of security problems,
second only to plugins.