Re: Need advice on reliable way to identify IE as thebrowser

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

LOL

Overriding reason is, it is what I was given. And you know about scope creep. Someone else here has a Java applet that can do the same thing as this - but devil scope creep appears again. Besides, I go on vacation tomorrow!!

The test for window.ActiveXObject seems to be working wonderfully - and would pick up things when Gecko might allow their use.

BTW, this is in one of our products - fully intended for internal use at a customer's enterprise. Very little reason to be concerned about spoofing of UserAgent and all - anyone doing that probably should be dismissed. This app is just generally not opened to the world, although it could be.

I know - security by obscurity!

Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Dean, Robert" <rdean@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> The Gecko codebase has built-in support for ActiveX, but it's not enabled in 
> FireFox for security reasons. 
>
> What I've been wondering is if there is some overriding reason why the solution 
> has to involve ActiveX as opposed to Silverlight (which is better supported by 
> "other" browsers and has less security potholes to avoid). 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Nathan Andelin 
> Sent: Wed 7/30/2008 3:37 PM 
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries 
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Need advice on reliable way to identify IE as thebrowser 
>
> > 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. 
>
>
>
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