[thelist] Browser Detection
Andrew Forsberg
andrew at thepander.co.nz
Thu Feb 22 22:59:15 CST 2001
> > >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.
>>
>> Sorry - this is an error. The script which redirects you from
>> netscape's home page for the 'client sniffer' doesn't recognize IE 5
>> mac. It tells you your browser is a 'bad browser'.
>>
>> The script at the url I mentioned before on mozilla.org works just fine.
>
>so your saying that the Netscape home page can't detect a browser using a
>different sniffer to the actual Netscape sniffer tool that they've let
>everyone use for years? *lol* - AOL ... gotta love 'em :)
Yea - it's true. (well it's not netscape's home page -- it's the home
page on netscape for the client sniffer script.) The DMOZ listing for
'ultimate client sniffer' passes you to Netscape's 'developer' <cough
/> area where at:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/browser_type.html
I get redirected to:
http://my.netscape.com/badbrowser.tmpl
and in no uncertain terms I am informed that my browser is: 'bad' and
'invalid'. It wouldn't be half as funny if the self-righteousness of
netscape's on that page was backed up by a browser that actually did
work well ... but that's another story.
I thought it was quite funny too.
Andrew
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Andrew Forsberg
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