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

Yeah, I don't do Opera although I'll sing just about anything.......

Could do

var isIE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1 and navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Opera') = -1;

But that could get tedious. I agree, Alfredo has a more elegant design until someone builds a plugin that will run ActiveX in other browsers. Then things will get ugly...

Pete

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Pete

Problem there is that some browsers, like Opera, report themselves as MSIE and also contain the word Opera in this attribute. I did not want something so messy as to deal with a bunch of browsers, although I would have gone that way. Alfredo, though, wins a Dr Pepper at the next COMMON.

Later
Vern

-------------- Original message -------------- From: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>

User agent is what I have been using but I haven't had to deal with Safari.
var isIE = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') != -1;
Pete
vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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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