Browser News: Resources - Browser Sniffing. This gives information about making code which differs for different browsers, using client-side browser sniffing and other techniques.
Sometimes, to overcome browser differences, it is necessary to use different code for different browsers, especially to cater to older browsers which complied more poorly with browser standards. Different code should be used as seldom as possible: ideally never; this author’s experience is that modern browsers need different code very, very rarely. There are several ways to do this, with different levels of reliability, for different purposes: Examples are given below. Internet Explorer Conditional Comments This technique enables different HTML to be parsed by IE, by different versions of IE, or by all browsers other than IE. Microsoft introduced conditional comments with IE5 for Windows. The big advantage of conditional comments is that they are completely reliable, which is not something which can be said of other techniques.
JavaScript Object Detection <! Using the navigator object to detect client's browser. Using the navigator object to detect client's browser Last updated: January 20th, 15' Until one browser remains standing on the web (if ever), browser detection will continue to be part of any good JavaScripter's life.
Whether you're gliding a div across the screen or creating an image rollover, it's fundamental that only relevant browsers pick up on your code. In this tutorial we'll probe the navigator object of JavaScript, and show how to use it to perform browser detection, whether the subject is Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, etc. The navigator object The navigator object was conceived back in the days when Netscape Navigator reined supreme.
The navigator object of JavaScript contains the following core properties: Let's see exactly what these properties reveal of the browser you're currently using: appCodeName: MozillaappName: NetscapeappVersion: 5.0 (X11)userAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0platform: Linux x86_64 At a glance Output: CSS Browser Selector. Clever technique to help you on CSS hacks.
Last updated: November 02, 2010 (v0.4.0) CSS Browser Selector is a very small javascript with just one line which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser. The JavaScript support is disabled on your browser. Please, enable JavaScript and refresh this page.
The color of this box will change on different os/browsers: Internet Explorer - yellow Internet Explorer 7 - orange Gecko Engine on Windows (Firefox, Mozilla, Camino) - red Gecko Engine on Linux (Firefox, Mozilla, Camino) - pink Gecko Engine on Other OS (Firefox, Mozilla, Camino) - gray Opera - green Konqueror - blue Safari - black Chrome - cyan If the box is white, and you are using one of browsers above, something is wrong :-/ Help us in this case! Source of this example: Screenshots on Browsercam Chris Preece contributed with some images This is a little effort, but certainly with your donation I will do it happier :) 1.