Re: Need advice on reliable way to identify IE as the browser

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I don't do Opera although I'll sing just about anything.......

Could do

var isIE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1 and navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') = -1;

But that could get tedious.  I agree, Alfredo has a more elegant design 
until someone builds a plugin that will run ActiveX in other browsers.  
Then things will get ugly...

Pete

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Pete
>
> Problem there is that some browsers, like Opera, report themselves as MSIE and also contain the word Opera in this attribute. I did not want something so messy as to deal with a bunch of browsers, although I would have gone that way. Alfredo, though, wins a Dr Pepper at the next COMMON.
>
> Later
> Vern
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> 
>
>   
> > User agent is what I have been using but I haven't had to deal with Safari. 
> >
> > var isIE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1; 
> >
> > Pete 
> >
> > vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> >     
> > > Have a CGI app that builds a page with some Javascript - it can try to use an 
> > >       
> > ActiveX object, but, of course, that is invalid in Firefox - or at least I will 
> > treat it as such. 
> >     
> > > I've looked at some ways to know that the browser is IE - UserAgent I think is 
> > >       
> > one but things like Opera can make themselves look like IE for part of it. 
> >     
> > > The use of the ActiveX object involves a javascript:void that calls a 
> > >       
> > function. That function tries to execute a function in the ActiveX object. I 
> > have tried a try-catch around the javascript:void but am seeing - doh - that 
> > there will never be an error at that point that I can respond to - or is there? 
> >     
> > > In firefox, the call to the ActiveX function does generate an error, but it's 
> > >       
> > buried in the javascript:void. 
> >     
> > > So what are my options? Back to useragent or whatever it's called? - have to 
> > >       
> > check google again. Or is there a way to check some error back where I use the 
> > javascript:void? 
> >     
> > > Or something else!! 
> > >
> > > Thanks 
> > > Vern 
> > >
> > >       
> > --
> > This is the Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries (WEB400) mailing list 
> > To post a message email: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, 
> > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/web400 
> > or email: WEB400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives 
> > at http://archive.midrange.com/web400. 
> >
> >