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22nd January 2008 - Link Blog

The versioning switch is not a browser detect. PPK: “In other words, the versioning switch does not have any of the negative effects of a browser detect.”

Posted 22nd January 2008 at 4:34 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd January 2008.

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