--- In zope@yahoogroups.com, David Bear <David.Bear@a...> wrote:

I've been trying to conceptualize how I could select content FORMATTING based on the browser that connects. My thought was to use the request.HTTP_USER_AGENT and see about parsing and selecting there.

The ugly thing is that IE starts out saying its mozilla. here's the results of various UA strings.

IE 5.5 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

IE 6.0 Mozilla/4.0 (copmatible; MSIE 6.0, Windows NT 5.0)

Netscape 4.7 Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)

Real Mozilla Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

So, has anyone implemented a browser switch method thats easily understood? I'd like to select a different template based on the browser. Ergo, server side control instead of sending a load of javascript.. (I know, browsers can lie) I just made a how-to with the code I use: http://www.zope.org/Members/jmeile/browserDetector

It works with Netscape >=4, Microsoft Internet explorer, Opera, Galeon, Konqueror, lynx, links, wget and Mozilla/gecko compatible browsers. With the rest you will see browser='unknown', version='0'. If you want more browsers, you'll have to add them. Regards, Josef.