[Javascript] Browser sniffing!

Information - Abyss Info at Abyss.ws
Wed Jan 10 20:00:04 CST 2007


Thank you for your reply

I appreciate it

Regards
Abyss
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Novitski" <paul at juniperwebcraft.com>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Browser sniffing!


> At 1/10/2007 03:51 AM, Information - Abyss wrote:
>>I am wanting to write a Javacript file that will find a browsers 
>>name and browser version
>>
>>so that anything less then IE 7 it displays an error message
> ...
> 
> 
> The main problem with browser-sniffing with javascript is that it 
> assumes, erroneously, that HTTP_USER_AGENT always correctly reports 
> the browser name and version.  It doesn't.
> 
> I don't know if this falls within the scope of what you're trying to 
> achieve, but instead of javascript you could simply use Microsoft's 
> conditional comments.  They have the advantage of being executed -- 
> accurately and only -- by Internet Explorer:
> 
> <!--[if lt IE 7]>
>         <script type="text/javascript">
>                 alert('Not IE 7');
>         </script>
> <![endif]-->
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp
> http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
> 
> Regards,
> Paul
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