jQuery is doing something similar with its "support" object:
http://docs.jquery.com/Utilities/jQuery.support
It uses feature detection once at the script initialization and then
uses boolean values to determine which code is appropriate..
On Aug 20, 7:50 am, ludovic <ludothebe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is a bad idea because there is no such thing as foolproof browser
> > sniffing.
> > The only way to know what the browser can do is to test its features,
> > and loading a piece of script for every feature implementation
> > specific to a browser completely kills the benefit of loading less
> > script.
>
> Unless you create as much files as there are features support
> combinaisons, or you create it once on-the-fly when you have a
> combinaison that has never been encountered.
>
> The main reason I was asking for that was not because I wanted to
> download a lighter file, but because I didn't wanted at each
> iteration tests which could be done once.
>
> Another way would be to download the entire script, but to do like
> that :
>
> in spite of
> o.setClass = function( class ) {
> if( isGoodDOM() ) {
> this.setAttribute( 'class', class );
> }
> else {
> this.setAttribute( 'className', class );
> }
>
> }
>
> to do
> if( isGoodDOM() ) {
> o.setClass = function( class ) {
> this.setAttribute( 'class', class );
> }}
>
> else {
> o.setClass = function( class ) {
> this.setAttribute( 'className', class );
> }
>
> }
>
> ---
> Ludovic
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