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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Feb 19, 2004 4:45AM

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Tim Beadle wrote:

> > Let's see what Google says when I ask
> > "Tantek's hack"
> > The first hit is described by Google as follows:
> >
> > Box Model Hack
> > Please upgrade to a browser that supports web standards. Box Model
> > Hack. Boxtest. Here is a sample div with class "boxtest". It has ...
> > tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html
>
> Which browser are you using?

I get the same information on any browser. Don't you? I don't think
Google does much browser sniffing.

> That technique, and the browser upgrade campaign,
> is positively discouraged now.

I don't know what technique you are referring to, but Tantek's page has
apparently been modified this month. It's also almost illegibly small font
on my current choice of browser (chosen, for better or worse, by hundreds
of millions of people), unless I take special measures to override all
font size suggestions by the author. Does _this_ ring a bell?

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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