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Post by Pete on Sept 25, 2017 12:21:56 GMT
Is what I'm going to be doing soon when I'm not pressed for time.
The reason is that, as I've mentioned elsewhere, I've encountered one in this group & a few minutes ago I ran into another one on a tech news site. That one was counting-down a 30 second long sniffing. I didn't wait around for that to be completed.
Why?
'Cause I'm not familiar with what they really are & do. Which means I don't fully trust them. So, I'm going to be investigating those to learn if they're benign Web tools or if there's more to them than I know now. 'More' meaning something undesirable. We'll see...
In the meantime, feel free to submit what you know or have learned about browser-sniffers.
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Post by nquale on Sept 25, 2017 18:31:41 GMT
Pete I just went looking through the ProBoards help forum to see if there was a posting about browser sniffers but couldn't find anything other then that these boards do have a sniffer that snifs out links we post to see if they are associated with their advertiser. If they are associated then proboards gets paid for that advertisment. You could always post to them in their forum about the browser sniffer because like I stated I've never gotten that sniffer in Phil's forum and David hasn't gotten it in the other proboard forum he belongs to. I did find this interesting post on what BBCode works in here and here's the one that suppose to work for showing codes correctly without them rendering the code- Doesn't execute[b]code[/b] and shows tags. now I'll have to see if it worked  Here's the post about BBCodes- support.proboards.com/thread/523784/supported-bbcode |
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Post by nquale on Sept 25, 2017 18:33:47 GMT
OK I'll try that again because it did work but it doesn't show you the code to use-
[noparse]Doesn't execute[b]code[/b] and shows tags.[/noparse]
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Post by nquale on Sept 25, 2017 18:35:19 GMT
good it works as you can see if you use noparse in the brackets then it'll show any code that's in between those tags. It could be useful to know |
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Post by Pete on Sept 25, 2017 18:58:39 GMT
Nancy, those noparse tags can be very useful in displaying tags when one is showing someone how to use BBCode. In our former 4.0 group there was a button to click-on to render tags inoperative so you could show someone the tags to use.
In this group I've had to resort to using these ( ) instead of these [ ] for tags to do the same thing. If there's a button for that here up there above ones text-box to click-on for displaying coding I've not discovered it. But I just noticed the C button. Mousing-over it says Insert Code. I'll have to play with that to see what it does.
[b]insert code here[/b]
Ah ha! It works to disable tags so they can be shown. Cool.
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Post by david on Sept 25, 2017 19:21:35 GMT
Pete said:"If there's a button for that here up there above ones text-box to click-on for displaying coding I've not discovered it."
See the black square with the letter C in it. That is the button to use to display code.
insert code here
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Post by david on Sept 25, 2017 19:22:58 GMT
I see you have already found it.
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Post by Pete on Sept 25, 2017 23:38:06 GMT
Well, I did quite a bit of reading on browser-sniffers & apparently they're nothing more than what Nancy had described in another thread. A tool used for detecting ones type of browser so that Web content can be rendered compatible for a specific browser.
Which begs the question: why isn't there either a uniform way in which Web content is created so as to be compatible with all browsers or the reverse, creating browsers that can 'read' any type of Web format & convert it so that its usable to that particular browser?
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Post by Byron on Sept 26, 2017 1:06:13 GMT
Most sites sniff whether or not your browser is a mobile phone so they can render the mobile site to them. Browser sniffers are no big deal. I used to sniff browsers back in the WebTV days so only WebTV or MSNTV people could uuse a tool:
SetEnvIf User-Agent "^Mozilla\/4\.0 \(compatible\; MSIE 6\.0\; Windows NT 5\.1\; mediacenter\; STB\; 560x384\; MSNTV 5\.\d\; THMDR\)" let_me_in
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from webtv.net
Allow from env=let_me_in
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