[Catalyst] Checking client browsers, best approach?

Ryan god at detz.net
Wed Sep 20 15:41:25 CEST 2006


Great info guys thanks, I will take all of this and work with it.


----- Original Message -----
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Checking client browsers, best approach?
Date: Wed, September 20, 2006 9:19
From: "Brian Cassidy" <brian.cassidy at nald.ca>

> Hi Ryan,
>
> Ryan wrote:
> > OK, here is what I need to do.  I'm writing a reservation system for a
> > hotel and I have some cool features in mind for the process but they
> > require javascript and "newer" browsers. What I was planning on doing is
> > creating the bare-bones pages that work in any browser, no JS just all
> > server calls etc...then I want to go back and insert the new stuff where
> > it's appropriate but only for the people that can handle it.  I was
> > thinking of having a landing page(default or something) that ran some
> > tests to see if that could fail. Then I thought it might be easier in the
> > begin function to just check browsers and set a variable in the stash if
> > they can handle the new stuff or not. What's the best way to go about
> > doing this, should I just scan the req variables that come in and make my
> > decision on that or does Catalyst have something better?
> >
> The "experts" have told us that browser sniffing is evil -- god kills a
> kitten, yadda, yadda. The preferred method to use is called "object
> detection" [1]. If you're using a pre-built ajax framework, check to see
> if it has some object detection built in.
>
> -Brian
>
> [1] http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html
>
>
>



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