The header: HTTP_USER_AGENT
The regex: MSIE (\d+)\.
browser_is_old = int(group(1)) <= 8
The challenge is testing - my XP VM updated IE to 9 before I could stop it
:)
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Andrea Aime
<andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it>wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Justin Deoliveira <
> jdeol...@boundlessgeo.com> wrote:
>
>> I too like the idea of browser identification and switching between new
>> and old. For the old I think it would be good to add some notice that says
>> "your browser sucks" ... er i mean "Your browser is currently not supported
>> ..., blah blah"
>>
>
> Ok, so how do we detect the unsupported browsers?
> I've found this library to detect the user agents, but it's kinda big, two
> jars, around 300kb I believe.
>
> Maybe we can have a blacklist of specific strings instead? Suggestions?
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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