[thelist] Browser Detection

[Andrew Forsberg]

>what do you mean by how am I getting the name and version variables? 
>The code that I pasted is all I have.  Please let me know how to fix 
>this.
>

Mozilla.org has a page which describes how to do this at length -- 
still, you probably don't want a script which excludes every browser 
that isn't either Netscape or IE, since most of them will probably 
work just fine.

Netscape's 'Ultimate JavaScript Client Sniffer' is available at:

http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html

Also, be prepared for browsers that either don't have a working 
javascript implementation, or users who have turned their javascript 
engine off. You'll probably want to have a

<META http-equiv="refresh" content="10; url=nojavascript.html">

redirect of some sort to avoid these users just getting stuck on a blank page.

Hope that helps,

Andrew

PS - the 'ultimate client sniffer' page itself just choked on my IE 5 
(mac) browser... so you'll want to check how successful it really is 
on several different browsers.
-- 
Andrew Forsberg
http://www.thepander.co.nz