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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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Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
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