Re: NS4.x / IE3.0 Browser Detection

On Tuesday 20 August 2002 10:57 am, Lowell Allen wrote: > > From: Andre Dubuc <aajdubuc@webhart.net> > > > > I need to differentiate between different versions of NS4, particularly > > the ones that are used by Mac. So far, I've used the following to detect > > variants: > > > > if(eregi("(Mozilla/4.[0-8][0-9])",$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) > > > > However, I'm aware that it will not distinguish between PC and Mac-based > > NS4. My question is: what versions of NS (if any) do Mac's use? I've used > > the following to detect IE3.0 users: > > > > if(eregi("(mozilla/3.0)",$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) > > > > Is this correct? > > > > Any insights or advice most welcome. > > Here's what I use to detect Mac Netscape 4.x: > > if((eregi("Mozilla", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) && > (!eregi("MSIE", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) && > (!eregi("Gecko", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) && > (eregi("Mac", getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")))) > > Do you really need to differentiate between 4.x versions? It looks like > you're matching any 4.x version. Thanks Lowell, That's the problem -- I don't know whether to exclude Mac NS4 as well. I'm using a lot of CSS1, and NS4's output is horrible. Rather than re-write the whole site, or try to patch things up, I'm re-directing them to WaSP. So, the question is: does Mac NS4 behave like the PC version? If so, I'll just use what I have, and re-direct. Any ideas on the Mac? Tia, Andre