Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Re: BBC News websites

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:12:32 +0000 (GMT), Michael Drake wrote:

> > I'm not sure I necessarily agree with this workaround - a website
> > deciding that everything running ARM must want the mobile version of a
> > page is making a pretty big assumption
>
> I decided there was no good reason for leaking processor architecture
> information anyway.

Some sites use it to determine the correct download to offer. For
example, www.opera.com. Under Linux, if you artificially add "; ppc"
where the processor information used to be, the download page will
give the Linux PowerPC version instead of the Linux x86 one.

Chris

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