Hi
My Firefox insists on calling itself Netscape. Since the two require different methods of page formatting it's important that I can tell them apart.
In fact - I'd be grateful for any spare wisdom on browser detection.
Thanks
Anthony
Browser detection
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that's weird about firefox. Are you trying to detect for JS or CSS or ??
http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/ or http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack might help
I haven't had a client request support for netscape in a quite a while. It must be under 1% at this point. Not saying you don't but seeing as you likely have more people with low vision using your site than people using netscape - I'd spend any extra dev cycles availble to ensure a good experience for them and just ensure some one using netscape can 'use' the site. progressive enhancement and all that jazz...
Will
http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/ or http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHack might help
I haven't had a client request support for netscape in a quite a while. It must be under 1% at this point. Not saying you don't but seeing as you likely have more people with low vision using your site than people using netscape - I'd spend any extra dev cycles availble to ensure a good experience for them and just ensure some one using netscape can 'use' the site. progressive enhancement and all that jazz...
Will
That does sound odd, I know you can easily change the user agent in Firefox, so I wonder if that has been done.
If you goto http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ it will tell you what your browser is really calling itself! Look for HTTP_USER_AGENT
My Firefox comes up as:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
You can get an Add On for Firefox to very easily change the user agent:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
If you goto http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ it will tell you what your browser is really calling itself! Look for HTTP_USER_AGENT
My Firefox comes up as:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
You can get an Add On for Firefox to very easily change the user agent:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/