[thelist] Asking newbie questions
Ben Dyer
ben_dyer at imaginuity.com
Wed Nov 7 15:31:02 CST 2001
At 03:19 PM 11/7/2001, you wrote:
>I'm trying to set up a browser detect and page switcheroo thingy (tres
>descriptive n'est ce pa?).
Mais oui. :)
>I want users coming in on NS4.* to go to a
>different page. All of the things I've found will detect what browser
>someone is on, but I don't know how to take that and get the page to
>change.I was using the browser detection based on Ultimate Client
>Sniffer, from
><http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/browser_type.html>.
Ironic. The page doesn't seem to cooperate in IE5.
http://my.netscape.com/badbrowser.tmpl
It says it's not there, but look at the file name. They look to be
"pulling a Microsoft."
>I'm guessing it would be something like: if btype==nav4 then go
>"hereURL", (or some such incomprehensible JS stuff). I haven't seen
>anything that has all of these functions in one script. I guess what I
>need is a function that will redirect the page that adds on to the
>browser detect, but I haven't found any simple ones (read: ones that I
>could decipher). Does anyone have one, or know of one that I could use.
It looks like you can take that big, long script and modify it by adding
this as the last line.
if (is_nav4) {
location.replace('hey_sucker_upgrade.html');
}
The location.replace function prevents that nasty problem when you hit back
and it immediately bounces you forward again which is really, really
irritating.
--Ben
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Ben Dyer, Senior Internet Developer, Imaginuity Interactive
http://www.imaginuity.com/
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