window.close() with Netscape

minonees · May 15, 2001

Hi everybody,
I'm tryin' to prevent users from browsin' my website usin' Netscape, I'm usin' the followin' code:

<script language="javascript">
<!--
function detect_browser()
{
if (navigator.appName != "Microsoft Internet Explorer&quot

{
alert("Please use IE to browse this Website.&quot

;
window.close();
}
}
-->
</script>

<BODY onLoad="detect_browser()"></BODY>

But when I browse the website usin' Netscape, I get the alert message, but Netscape shows a dialog box asking me if I wish to close the window or not. I wanna close the window without askin' the users. The window.close() works good with IE.

With regards

link9 · May 16, 2001

the only time window.close() is not going to show that box is if you have opened the window yourself from another page -- that gives you ownership of the window, and then you can do whatever you want with it --

If you want the easiest IE detector, you can use this:

if (document.all)

if that's true, then they are using IE -- if it's false, they're not --

I use that for our intranet, and then just use a:
location='getIE.htm';

to let them know that their browser stinks.

Paul Prewett

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window.close() with Netscape

minonees

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link9

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