Re: Need advice on reliable way to identifyIE asthe browser

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Walden

I think we are all agreeing semi-violently! The old way of doing this, as I understand it now, WAS to do browser identification. And I guess people just put up with the woes of that process. My original post really was about finding if I could use an ActiveX object - and I'm sure I couched it badly.

So all the best I've read when trying to find an answer has said, test the functionality, not the browser. Your point about future support for something is well taken.

Thanks
Vern

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From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Alfredo, 
>
> I'm all too well aware of the non-standard issues in IE. :) My point 
> was, you should be writing code to look specifically for the support (or 
> lack thereof) of the functionality you need, not looking to see that 
> it's a browser that support (or doesn't support) what you need. That 
> way, for example, if you have a version of Gecko that supports ActiveX 
> ou can use ActiveX, even if the browser it FF. 
>
> I can't see why you would ever care what the remote browser is. I can 
> see caring about what it supports, but not what it is. 
>
> -Walden 
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