Browser Detection 1

[ecannizzo]

How do I find out which browser a user is using and then based on that redirect them to a certain page?

Thanks!
Erica

 

[Buraje]

Hi Erica,

the easiest thing is just:

var brows = navigator.appName;

if ("Netscape" == brows)
do whatever;
else do something else;
(It's still about 40% N'scape to 60% IE,
so I personally don't worry about the other
browsers.)

But there are more sophidticated ways to do it.
And many people do it - just have a look at some source
codes of webpages.
I'm quite new to this forum, but I'm sure anybody else
might have asked the same question before and got
better answers than this one.

By the way:
Wouldn't it be less work to find out why your pages look
different in the two browsers?
Fix this and you won't have to redirect to different pages.

regards,
buraje

 

[jaredn]

I prefer using object detection:

if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera&quot>=0)
{window.location="opera.htm"}

if(document.all&&!document.getElementById){window.location="IE4.htm"}

if(!document.all&&document.getElementById){window.location="NS6.htm"}

if((document.all&&document.getElementById){window.location="ie5plus.htm"}

if(document.layers){window.location="AWFULBROWSER_goaway.htm"}

and so on... these might not be fully correct, but it shows the main idea... we needed to use the userAgent property of opera because the tricky engineers decided to make it masquerade as IE and I believe it can as NS as well... jaredn@eae.net -

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[jaredn]

(btw: its 10% or less Netscape and 90%+ IE5+ now jaredn@eae.net -

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[ecannizzo]

If I wanted to say this:

if (IE5 == false) or (N6 == false)
{window.location=&quot;index.asp?SSID=&quot; + <%=request(&quot;SSID&quot%>}

How can I make this work, since request(&quot;SSID&quot is used in VBScript?

Thanks!
Erica

 

[jaredn]

something like:

N6=IE5=false

if(document.all&&document.getElementById){IE5=true}
if(!document.all&&document.getElementById){N6=true}

if(!IE5||!N6)
{
window.location=&quot;index.asp?SSID=&quot; + <%=request(&quot;SSID&quot%>
}

are you sure you didn't mean not IE5 and not NS6? If so you would just change the ||'s above to &&.
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[ecannizzo]

Actually my problem is sending the request variable on the URL in window.location.

I am testing to make sure they are using N6 or IE5.5...

Erica

 

[jaredn]

maybe try:

window.location=&quot;index.asp?SSID=&quot; + &quot;<%=request(&quot;SSID&quot%>&quot;
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[ecannizzo]

How do I get something off of the querystring in Javascript?

Erica

 

[jaredn]

to access the querystring, you use:

myquery = window.location.search

that will return something that looks like this, if the url was

http://www.location.com?mykey1=myvalue1

:

myquery = mykey1=myvalue1&mykey2=myvalue2

then you can split on the &quot;&&quot;s signs:

mypairs = myquery.split(&quot;&&quot

then you can split on the &quot;=&quot;

myfirstvalue = mypairs[0].split(&quot;=&quot[1]

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[jaredn]

btw you may want to add this after &quot;myquery = window.location.search&quot;:

myquery = myquery.substring(1,myquer.length) jaredn@eae.net -

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[kettch]

try here:

http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_browser.asp