[thelist] browser confession

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Mon Oct 7 16:56:00 CDT 2002


Peter-Paul Koch wrote:
>> I am helping to design a site for someone who is using AOL 7 on Mac,
>> with resolution set to 1280 x 1024.  I need a good browser sniffer
>> because what we're using now just ain't cutting it for some reason.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend a decent solution or point me in the direction of
>> one?
>
>
> JavaScript browser detects are not reliable with AOL browsers. AOL uses
> Explorer as its code engine, and Explorer is responsible for creating
> navigator.userAgent and such. Sometimes it tells you it's underneath AOL,
> sometimes it doesn't.

And as I recall, AOL 7 for OS X was the first to bundle Mozilla
(Netscape 7) as its browsers so you may be seeing very different
browsers depending on which OS/AOL combination is in play.

Judah






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