----- Original Message ----- From: "Tino Wildenhain" <tino@wildenhain.de> To: "Eron Lloyd" <elloyd@lancaster.lib.pa.us> Cc: "Gilles Lenfant" <gilles@pilotsystems.net>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Detecting Mozilla based browsers
Hi,
detecting a special user-agent incarnation is usually a waste of time. Instead of trying to detect one of 1423124982739 browsers with different capabilities by their most of the time faked user-agent string, one should focus to silently fall back and check only availability of special attributes in the DOM.
Thanks, I'll try to do it this way.
IF you want to use a special DOM object, just look wether it is defined and choose your action based on this.
This way you silently support all browsers which try to be the same instead of making an endless growing list.
I personally HATE sites which tell me I would have an unsuported browser only because their sucking scripts fail.
I usually hate this too, but I need this to (try to) extend the IEEditor to give Mozilla+Midas users the ability to edit content with a WYSIWIG tool. Other solution : an applet, a flash stuff (if it can dial with a HTTP server) or structured text :(( The users want rich text formatting but don't want to learn 10 HTML tags.
Pretty please stop this sillyness!
It's not for introducing stupid marketing animations but a really useful stuff. --Gilles