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    Outdated Epic Fail

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Iron Dan, Aug 1, 2012.

  1. Iron Dan

    Iron Dan Notebook Consultant

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    So I was testing out IE10 on Windows 8 Release Preview the other day to look up some text book info...
     

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    The website just checks the useragent string reported by the browser, and comes up with an "outdated" popup if it's not the current version of each of the browsers. IE10's "identification" isn't recognized by the website because it's not final yet.
     
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    preview Notebook Evangelist

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    It's just a badly written site that naively checks the User Agent instead of checking for browser capabilities as is best practice. IE10 calls itself "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0)" plus a platform and touch addition. My guess is that the site only reads the first character of the version token and then assumes that you're using version 1 (which is indeed quite old).

    Amateur hour, but really not that 'epic'.
     
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