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Comment by jessaustin | Hacker News Reader

Jeez, why can't browser developers be more considerate of the poor put-upon user agent-detecting site developer?

Haha, are you making a reference to this gem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765645 ?

No, but that thread is golden, and certainly captures the essence of the agent-sniffer. That is, if YHWH had ever heard of agent sniffing, he would do it all the time and complain bitterly whenever it breaks, which is also all the time. Like any skilled troll, YHWH kept me guessing as to whether he was actually trolling or not. Those mozilla folks have the patience of ages. Best response was:

For future reference: look into externalizing your scripts/css into a separate file and referencing that instead of copying and pasting to every page.

I also liked the find | xargs and sed one-liners. They might as well have been speaking Aramaic.

They might as well have been speaking Aramaic.

Someone named YHWH should probably be able to understand Aramaic! :)

My favorite bug report. The reporter of the bug runs quite a few over the top early 2000s looking religious websites. I won't post them here because they give me a ton of security warnings on FF but the more adventurous reader may want to take a look. Lack of -moz-opacity:0.7 should really be at the bottom of the reporters problems.

I almost lost it when he threatened to invoice them $18,000 for the time it took him to "update his thousands of pages"

Wow. So that's what a sense of entitlement looks like!

Entitlement and true idiocy. It was so entertaining to read because the author is moaning and bitching about using an experimental feature. Great candidate for being an IE6 advocate.

The developers are pretty unsympathetic though. That disclaimer on the third paragraph of CSS_Reference/Mozilla_Extensions? It might as well have been on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. I understand the reasoning for removing the prefixed version, but they should at least give the developers more warning!

What do you expect from a user calling themselves YHWH?

Haha Woooow, that thread's too good to be true.

hahah damn, YWHW is insane.

Haha yeah. User-Agent: ... (Webaudio, like Chrome) ...

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