Detecting Browser type

[TurboSRT4]

Hello all.... I am a rookie programer and I am learning javascript as needed I am fairly good with perl....my site will only work correctly with IE. Is there a way to detect browser and if its not ie to use a confirm box to redirect and open a new window with my site in IE thank or any way to detect browser and if not ie then just launch a new window in ie thank you

 

[feherke]

Hi

Is there a way to detect browser

Yes, but browser detection is deprecated practice. Feature detection is highly recommended.

Anyway, in your case conditional comments will be enough. See ChrisHunt's comment in thread253-1569895.

open a new window with my site in IE

And if no Explorer is found, install it ?

Anyway, fortunately such thing is impossible.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[IPGuru]

my site will only work correctly with IE

I would suggest you recode you site to be standards complient so that it works as expected on all browsers - including newer releases of IE which could easily drop old features.

Propriety code/technioques should only be used on internal corporate sites whre you can have resonable control over you useres (& ebven then only if 100% necessary)

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I'd like to echo the sentiments by previous posters:

Unless this is an intranet site, you should really strive to make it cross-browser compatible - it's really not hard to achieve, and any good developer should be able to do so.

Dan



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[TurboSRT4]

hey thanks guys, what happend was, I was working on my site at home, my girlfriend was at my parents i told her to go check out, now keep in mind my girlfriend seems to slowly trading her brain for a big fat gut for the last ten years.thats a long time on a payment plan so she has very little brain left....Anyways she could not get anything to work in firefox so i thought it was a programing issue, i found out later after installing firefox myself the correct plugins were not installed in firefox. So it works gret on both! thanks guys

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[IPGuru]

I hope for your sake your girlfriend dosent read tek-tips (although from the sound of things i think you are safe)