RE: browser check
You can check this by looking at CGI.HTTP_User_Agent which will identify the browser. The only problem with this is different browsers return different types. Hatton Humphrey -Original Message- From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: browser check ? looking for help on this if anyone can... on our new layout for our site we have a menu script that works great with IE but not w/ ns. i was wondering if their was a way to do a check with cf that would check which browser was being used and if they were using NS then it would not load the menu script but if they were using IE then it would. ( does that make sense?) any ideas? thanks, Jay Patton Web Pro USA 406.549.3337 ext. 203 1.888.5WEBPRO www.webpro-usa.com ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: browser check
Well it depends: you mention a script. Is it written in CF or Javascript. If javascript it's easy (just look at developer.netscape.com and the javascript guide). And it's just as easy using CF. Just check your server variables (CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT). Then look at the value and parse it out as needed to get the browser name and do a check. Jay At 10:42 AM 1/9/2001 -0700, you wrote: ? looking for help on this if anyone can... on our new layout for our site we have a menu script that works great with IE but not w/ ns. i was wondering if their was a way to do a check with cf that would check which browser was being used and if they were using NS then it would not load the menu script but if they were using IE then it would. ( does that make sense?) any ideas? thanks, Jay Patton Web Pro USA 406.549.3337 ext. 203 1.888.5WEBPRO www.webpro-usa.com ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: browser check
Go to the CF Developers Exchange look at the custom tags that do this for you. AEBrowser (I think) is the one I use often, works great and returns a lot of useful information on the client that you can use to make good decisions. There are other good ones there too. I use it for checking browser types and versions and then display messages, use different menus or load different stylesheets. -Gary -Original Message- From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: browser check ? looking for help on this if anyone can... on our new layout for our site we have a menu script that works great with IE but not w/ ns. i was wondering if their was a way to do a check with cf that would check which browser was being used and if they were using NS then it would not load the menu script but if they were using IE then it would. ( does that make sense?) any ideas? thanks, Jay Patton Web Pro USA 406.549.3337 ext. 203 1.888.5WEBPRO www.webpro-usa.com ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: browser check
thanks.. Jay Patton Web Pro USA 406.549.3337 ext. 203 1.888.5WEBPRO www.webpro-usa.com - Original Message - From: "Gary McNeel, Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:31 AM Subject: RE: browser check Go to the CF Developers Exchange look at the custom tags that do this for you. AEBrowser (I think) is the one I use often, works great and returns a lot of useful information on the client that you can use to make good decisions. There are other good ones there too. I use it for checking browser types and versions and then display messages, use different menus or load different stylesheets. -Gary -Original Message- From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 11:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: browser check ? looking for help on this if anyone can... on our new layout for our site we have a menu script that works great with IE but not w/ ns. i was wondering if their was a way to do a check with cf that would check which browser was being used and if they were using NS then it would not load the menu script but if they were using IE then it would. ( does that make sense?) any ideas? thanks, Jay Patton Web Pro USA 406.549.3337 ext. 203 1.888.5WEBPRO www.webpro-usa.com ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: browser check
yeah i agree! i think that if 'nutscrape' would either die off and go to hell or at least catch up with the rest of the world it would make most of our jobs much easier. no? Jay Patton Web Pro USA 406.549.3337 ext. 203 1.888.5WEBPRO www.webpro-usa.com - Original Message - From: "Sean Daniels" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:09 PM Subject: RE: browser check I use the cf_browsercheck custom tag, available at the tag gallery, to do exactly the same thing you are talking about: cfset nutscrape = false cfif bc_browser is "netscape" cfset nutscrape = true /cfif cfif nutscrape ...code to not show kick butt dhtml menu cfelse ...code to show kick butt dhtml menu /cfif The reason I initialize the var nutscrape first is because I use it for other conditional stuff besides the menus. Plus I like the sound of it. - Sean ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: browser check
Jay I use this browser sniffer to check for the browser and redirect the
user to the appropriate page:
SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"
!-- Begin
function CheckBrowser() {
var name = navigator.appName
if (name == "Microsoft Internet Explorer")
url=("whereEver/index.htm");
else
url=("Whatever/index.htm")
window.location=url;
}
// End --
/SCRIPT
Then I put in an onload statement like this:
body bgcolor="#00" onLoad="CheckBrowser()"
works reliably
hth,
larry
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Jay Patton wrote:
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looking for help on this if anyone can...
on our new layout for our site we have a menu script that works great with IE but
not w/ ns. i was wondering if their was a way to do a check with cf that would check
which browser was being used and if they were using NS then it would not load the
menu script but if they were using IE then it would. ( does that make sense?) any
ideas?
thanks,
Jay Patton
Web Pro USA
406.549.3337 ext. 203
1.888.5WEBPRO
www.webpro-usa.com
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