[racket-dev] Downloading DrRacket for Mac is hard?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 11 13:21:22 EDT 2011

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Guillaume Marceau <gmarceau at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the ambiguous cases, you can get additional information by checking for
> flash. Because Adobe doesn't support flash player on x64 browsers, if
> detection is successful then it is definitely a 32 bit browser, if not, then
> the request came from either a 32 bit browser without flash plugin or from a
> 64 bit browser.

That seems like an unfortunate thing to rely on.

Robby



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