Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)
Thank you guys for all your suggestions. After (not) much though, I decided that the best thing to do is was to skip the browser detection all together, since it really just boils down to the size of the center frame, which is not as mission critical as it was when I wrote this page (to tell the truth, I didn't really notice a big difference anymore!). ...and sorry for taking this list so off-topic ... kindest regards, Riccardo -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.riccardoperotti.com
Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Riccardo Perotti wrote: ...and sorry for taking this list so off-topic ... Nah, don't worry about it -- at least you didn't bring up Python :) ...zope zope zope zope zope... :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have been necessary to invent it.
Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)
Riccardo Perotti wrote: What would be the correct Chimera detection scheeme? Check out: http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html Nothing Chimera specific, but can detect Gecko based browsers. Can also detect Flash plug-in and version.
Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Riccardo Perotti wrote: What would be the correct Chimera detection scheeme? As part of the family of browsers using the Gecko engine (with others being Mozilla, Netscape 6+, Phoenix, and Galeon), I would think that any attempt to get your pages to display well on $gecko should work well for all of them, since they all use the same core software to display pages. Better still, go browser agnostic, and let the user visit with whatever kind of web client she chooses -- traditional (IE, Netscape, Opera), low-fi (lynx, links, w3m, wget, telnet $site 80), or beyond (Palm Pilot / AvantGo, cell phone browser, braille screen reader, etc). But that's a whole other rant, isn't it? :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)
Riccardo,
Dunno what the correct Chimera detection scheme would be, but Apache
recognizes Chimera as
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1)
Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6
That said, others have responded with better suggestions on
cross-browser compatibility.
In the end, it is up to you to cater to whatever browsers you want to
cater to. Personally, I worry about IE and Netscape/Mozilla, but then,
most of my applications are for controlled environments (that is,
client intranets), so the users can be dictated to -- thou shalt use
so-and-so browser or we won't give a fig about so-and-so browser.
That does make things easy ;-).
Frankly, all this browser incompatibility is nonsense, and both M$ and
Netscape should be taken to the backalley and #$@%.
but, that _is_ another topic, for perhaps another list.
Thanks for TierraDeLuz.mp3. Nice.
Puneet.
On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 05:24 PM, Riccardo Perotti wrote:
On 12/14/2002 5:33 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:
doesn't work in Chimera. I checked your source code -- you really need
to make it compatible with browsers other than
if (NN4) {
..
else if (IE4) {
..
Sooner or later Chimera is gonna become a majorly ubiquitous browser
on
the Mac. You can easily write a server side script in perl to generate
all that stuff for different browsers.
Puneet.
Thanks. I guess I should.
What would be the correct Chimera detection scheeme?
Riccardo
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