[thelist] Browser Detect - IE6 = NN4?

[Jon Hall]

If you need to do your if's for the form in your asp code, set a cookie 
on the users machine when they hit your site that indicates which 
browser they are using, so the browser is always available.
Something like this:

var ns4 = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 && 
parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 && 
parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) < 5)? true : false;
var ie4 = (document.all)? true : false;
var ns6 = (parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) >= 5 && 
navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 )? true: false;

if(ns4) setCookie('ns4');
if(ie4) setCookie('ie4);
and so on...

I left out the setCookie fuction, just use your own cookie library. Then 
you can read the cookie in the server side code to get the browser. 
Calling a COM object just for browser detection seems a little heavy on 
server resources to me.

jon

Ken Kogler wrote:

>http://www.kenkogler.com/browse.asp
>
>Very simple code:
>
><code>
>  <%
>    'Create an instance of the Browser Capabilities Component
>    Dim objBC
>    Set objBC = Server.CreateObject("MSWC.BrowserType")
>  %>
>  <b>Your browser:</b> <%=objBC.Browser%><br>
>  <b>Browser version:</b> <%=objBC.Version%><br>
>  <b>Support Frames?</B> <%=objBC.Frames%><br>
></code>
>
>That's it. This is supposed to (among other things) detect my browser.
>I'm using IE6.0 under WinXP Pro, and this code tells me I'm running
>Netscape 4.00. 
>
>Anyone know what the heck's going on? I've got the following browsers
>installed:
>NN4.0
>NN6.02
>Opera 4
>Opera 5
>Mozilla 0.9
>IE6 
>
>NN4, IE6, and Opera 5 all return NN4. Opera 4 returns correctly, and NN6
>and Mozilla both choke and return "Default 0.00". You'd think microsoft
>would be able to detect it's own browsers.
>
>Anybody know a better browser dectection method to separate the Netscape
>4.X users? (I'm using this script to decide on a size for my <input>
>elements. NN4.x users get half the value of everyone else.)
>
>Thanks, guys (and gals)!
>
>Ken Kogler
>
>