[thelist] Tip: Javascript browser detection in IE5 Mac

[Mark Howells]

<tip type="Javascript browser detection in IE5 / Mac"
author="mark at mountain.ch">

When checking for browser version with Javascript, be careful when using
navigator.appVersion. IE 5.1.3 identifies itself as follows.

navigator.appVersion = "4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Macintosh; I; PPC)"
navigator.userAgent  = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.12; Mac_PowerPC)"

Note the difference between the MSIE version numbers.

</tip>

Regards
Mark Howells
<http://www.mark.ac/evl>