"VanguardLH" wrote

|
| So my pages are designed to work on any browser from IE6 to IE10 and
| all other popular browsers, with virtually any version.
|
| I've seen some privacy fanatics that never want to reveal which web
| browser they use. They use a UA header that doesn't identify either the
| web client nor attempts to pretend to be someone else's. What do you do
| then? Presumably you use a catch-all clause to provide some minimal
| functionality.
|
?php
$suser = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
if (stristr($suser, "MSIE"))
{
$smenu = "menuie2.inc";
}
elseif (stristr($suser, "Trident"))
{
$smenu = "menuiex.inc";
}
elseif (stristr($suser, "Edge"))
{
$smenu = "menuiex.inc";
}
else
{
$smenu = "menumoz2.inc";
}
?

It filters for IE or Edge. Chrome Edge udses a UA
with "Edg", so that gets treated as all other browsers.
As you can see, I'm not sorting browsers. I just have
3 options: IE pages, error page for Edge/IE11, and
normal pages with no script for all other browsers.
If it can handle CCS2 it can handle my menus. I usually
just test in FF and IE, but when I've tried testing in
other browsers they seem to be very consistent --
except IE.

| On hitting of security, it's a bit comical to me how nowadays so many
| people are trying to secure their credit card data (virtual cards, VPNs,
| alternate pay schemes, instant notifications of use, etc), yet they'll
| readily hand over their credit card to a minimum wage table jockey at a
| restaurant to pay their bill. Tis like dead bolting all the reinforced
| steel exterior doors of your house, but leaving open the windows.

I don't think so. There is a risk in stores. (Oprah
Winfrey once got her card stolen by another woman
watching from behind her in a store.) But that's
a different situation. It's personal. And there's a
better chance of tracing it back. And the restaurant
waiter/waitress probably doesn't want to risk their job.
With online it's faceless. Data gets taken from insecure
storage and sold on a regular basis. No one cares
because they figure the issuing bank will foot the bill.
Then of course there's also the risk of malware getting
onto your system and stealing typed data. If I have to
even allow script online I usually use one of my
sacrificial computers -- not one that I keep personal
files on.

An interesting example of a hybrid situation is Home
Depot. They got hacked by inserted hardware in their
automatic checkout card readers, if I remember correctly.
So it was risky to auto-checkout but the clerks' card
readers weren't hacked.

So there are risks. ATMs to some extent. Gas stations,
especially. But online is a whole different category. I
avoid credit cards for most things. I like to use cash
for gas, groceries, clothing, etc. I rarely go to
restaurants. Why buy worse food for 3 times the
price and have to sit 2' from the next table? (pre-
covid, of course) In general, I increasingly avoid credit
cards due to both privacy and security issues. I shop
at Whole Foods. I'm not interested in telling Bozo Bezos
what I eat.

If I'm going to order from an online company I like
to call. If they don't have a phone # then they don't
really have customer service, anyway.