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Browser detection and platform function Mac Safari and Firefox

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MeganJane2

MeganJane2

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Jun 21, 2006
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I need help to get the function below to work in Mac Safari and Firefox. Thanks in Advance:)

//browser detection
function Detect_Browser_and_Platform(){
agent = navigator.userAgent;
code = navigator.appCodeName;appname = navigator.appName;version = navigator.appVersion;

// ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- Detection Code
OS="other";
if (agent.indexOf("Win")!=-1){OS = "win";} if (agent.indexOf("Mac")!=-1){OS = "mac";}
Ver="0";
if (agent.indexOf("la/2") != -1){Ver="2";}
if (agent.indexOf("la/3") != -1){Ver="3";}
if (agent.indexOf("la/4") != -1){Ver="4";}
if (agent.indexOf("la/5") != -1){Ver="5";}
Browser="NS";
if (agent.indexOf("MSIE") != -1){Browser="IE";}
if (!agent && !code && !appname && !version){ //set for ie3
OS="win";Ver="3";Browser="IE";
}
// ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- End of Detection Code

//alert("Using "+Browser+" version: "+Ver+" on "+OS);

//-------------------------------------------
//ALL MACINTOSH STUFF HERE
if ((OS=="mac")&&(Browser=="NS")&&(Ver==3)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}
if ((OS=="mac")&&(Browser=="NS")&&(Ver==4)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}

if ((OS=="mac")&&(Browser=="IE")&&(Ver==3)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}//If this is the case, your in trouble... IE3 (Mac) doesn't actually support Script
if ((OS=="mac")&&(Browser=="IE")&&(Ver==4)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}

//-------------------------------------------
//ALL WINDOWS STUFF HERE
if ((OS=="win")&&(Browser=="NS")&&(Ver==2)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile_ns2.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}
if ((OS=="win")&&(Browser=="NS")&&(Ver==3)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile_ns3.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}
if ((OS=="win")&&(Browser=="NS")&&(Ver==4)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}

if ((OS=="win")&&(Browser=="IE")&&(Ver==3)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}
if ((OS=="win")&&(Browser=="IE")&&(Ver==4)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}
if ((OS=="win")&&(Browser=="IE")&&(Ver==5)){return("<body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' background='./images/front/tile.gif' leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0'>");}

}


document.write(Detect_Browser_and_Platform())
//END OF SCRIPT
// -->
 
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Do you have access to a Mac? If so, run up the programs, and type into the URL bar:

Code: 
javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent); alert(navigator.appCodeName); alert(navigator.appName); alert(navigator.appVersion);

Then you can find unique strings in those alerts to plug in for the correct values.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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I'm running the latest Safari on the latest MacOSX10.4 release... and here is what I got running Dan's suggestions:

alert(navigator.userAgent);
Code: 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.3
alert(navigator.appCodeName);
Code: 
Mozilla
alert(navigator.appName);
Code: 
Netscape
alert(navigator.appVersion);
Code: 
5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.3

Hope this helps,
Jeff

[tt]Jeff's Page @ Code Couch
[/tt]

What is Javascript? FAQ216-6094
 
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Maybe you missed it in the original post, Dan:
...Thanks in Advance:)
Click to expand...
Let me translate that for you:
... Rather than thank you in person for the effort you went to in answering my problem, and rather than taking a few moments to describe how I solved my problem (so future netizens can benefit as well), I'll just say thanks now... it'll save me the hassle of having to interact with other people, too! :)
Click to expand...
Ah well... we could always continue the thread and provide complete solutions in their absence I guess.

Cheers,
Jeff

[tt]Jeff's Page @ Code Couch
[/tt]

What is Javascript? FAQ216-6094
 
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