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Toggle Between Firefox and IE |
MMANOR |
Jan 11 2007, 01:24 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 11-January 07 Member No.: 1,527 |
Good Afternoon,
I understand that many scripts that work for IE may not work for Firefox and vice versa. Is there a script that can determine with internet provider a person is using to view my site and tailor the scripts to that provider? For example, currently my website is tailored strictly to IE, but I want to and need to expand to Firefox. What can be done to have the website function normally for both internet providers? Please help |
Peter1968 |
Jan 11 2007, 01:38 PM
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Serious Coder Group: Members Posts: 448 Joined: 23-September 06 Member No.: 213 |
What are you using that's IE only?
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Christian J |
Jan 11 2007, 02:12 PM
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. Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 9,630 Joined: 10-August 06 Member No.: 7 |
Is there a script that can determine with internet provider a person is using to view my site and tailor the scripts to that provider? It's also important that the site is usable if javascript is not supported at all, e.g. search engines normally ignore javascript. Otherwise IE supports "conditional comments", that allows you to hide content (including <script> elements) for non-IE browsers: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/cc2.shtml there's also an equivalent for javascript code, but I've never tried it: http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/co...alcompile.shtml Other ways to try to identify browsers are unreliable: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/support.html QUOTE For example, currently my website is tailored strictly to IE, but I want to and need to expand to Firefox. There's also the popular Mac browser Safari to consider. If you begin writing a script only for IE it will be much harder to adapt it to other browsers. I think the most practical approach is to try to make a script work in as many browsers as possible from the beginning, preferably using ingredients recommended by W3C. Only use conditional comments in the rare cases when you must use proprietary code to make it work in IE. |
Darin McGrew |
Jan 11 2007, 03:52 PM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,365 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
There are a lot of browsers besides MSIE and Firefox.
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