Re: Need advice on reliable way to identify IE as the browser

GOOGLE.

No seriously, I remember seeing some code to test for IE somewhere when
doing a search in GOOGLE. But I only code for IE, so I didn't use it.


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web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/30/2008 09:17:25 AM:

Have a CGI app that builds a page with some Javascript - it can try
to use an ActiveX object, but, of course, that is invalid in Firefox
- or at least I will treat it as such.

I've looked at some ways to know that the browser is IE - UserAgent
I think is one but things like Opera can make themselves look like
IE for part of it.

The use of the ActiveX object involves a javascript:void that calls
a function. That function tries to execute a function in the ActiveX
object. I have tried a try-catch around the javascript:void but am
seeing - doh - that there will never be an error at that point that
I can respond to - or is there?

In firefox, the call to the ActiveX function does generate an error,
but it's buried in the javascript:void.

So what are my options? Back to useragent or whatever it's called? -
have to check google again. Or is there a way to check some error
back where I use the javascript:void?

Or something else!!

Thanks
Vern
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