There is a broad range of capability among browsers, with some not supporting frames, certain HTML extensions, or graphics. Web sites that are tailored to specific browsers only address a percentage of web users, arbitrarily depriving the remainder of the experience that the web site authors would expect. At worst, a web site may be totally unusable by millions of potential visitors because of presumptions about the end-user's browser. Limitless' browser detection system effectively eliminates this very real problem by allowing different pages to be sent out to end-users, each optimised for the different browser that they use. The volatility of the browser market, Netscape vs. Microsoft, means that no site should be browser-specific.
Some sites make browser detection the users' problem by offering an alternative at the home page.
Limitless believe that the user shouldn't need to know that a choice is required, nor that such a choice is only possible at one place in the site. This system completely eliminates various overheads of database use, such as connection and disconnection. At the moment, this system integrates Oracle and Apache, but is relatively easy to migrate to other production-quality databases and web servers. In order to allow clients to maintain editorial control over their own sites in a controlled fashion, Limitless have developed a two-tier system of web site updating which allows clients to use their own choice of tools for authoring pages, while ensuring that updates to sites are done in a controlled and authorised fashion. We have developed technology which allows the timely transmission of data across the Internet for certain applications where the data rapidly decays in value, avoiding the delays associated with normal TCP connections.