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Browser sniffing

Browser sniffing (also known as User agent sniffing and browser detection) is a set of techniques used in websites and web applications in order to determine the web browser a visitor is using, and to serve browser-appropriate content to the visitor. It is also used to detect mobile browsers and send them mobile-optimized websites. This practice is…

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Sniffer methods

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Browser sniffing

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples23
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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Browser sniffing

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related to Issues and standards · 16
Browser sniffing → ActiveX, Browser, Consortium, DHTML, Firefox, Furthermore, Gecko, Generally, However, If, JavaScript, Many, The World Wide Web, They, Use, Websites
see also · 3
Browser sniffing → Browser, Computer, Object ModelUser

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browser web browsers used sniffing user agent also websites content standards client determine page detection use using order detect practice

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JavaScript which are interpreted by the user agentinstance ofSniffer methodsClient-side sniffingWeb pages can use programming languages0.80text
with results sent to the web serverinstance ofSniffer methodsClient-side sniffingWeb pages can use programming languages0.80text
JavaScript which are interpreted by the user agentinstance ofClient-side sniffingWeb pages can use programming languages0.80text
with results sent to the web serverinstance ofClient-side sniffingWeb pages can use programming languages0.80text
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsMany0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsJavaScript0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsDHTML0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsActiveX0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsHowever0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsGenerally0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsIf0.60section
Browser sniffingrelated to Issues and standardsThe World Wide Web0.60section

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