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

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Pete Helgren
> Alfredo has a more elegant design until someone builds a
> plugin that will run ActiveX in other browsers.  Then things
> will get ugly...

Which begs the question, should we even care about the name of the user agent, or whether it's from Microsoft or Mozilla or whomever?  Are we doing a survey?  Should we write conditional expressions based on isIE?  Or would it be better to write something like:

if (window.ActiveXObject) ..., which may not be supported in Firefox or Opera today, but maybe tomorrow.

Which brings me back to my earlier comment about just asking the DOM if it supports a particular element or method.

Nathan.