Why? They are different browsers, but use similar engines as John noted. jQuery.browser.safari should return true (untested...don't flame me if im wrong! :) i see a stronger argument for differentiating IE6 from IE7 more-so than this (i.e. we use $.browser.msie6 around here) ...until Chrome misbehaves.
On Sep 4, 6:28 am, "Ryan Zec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would agree that i think it might be helpful to add this once Chrome > is proven to be a popular browser and it is out of beta(and with > google that might be a while). From what i read and hear, the > javascript engine in Chrome is different from safari so being able to > check for that might be a good thing if when need to do something > specific in Chrome and not others. > > Again, I don't think this is an issue until Chrome is at least out of > beta as supporting a beta web browser does not seem to make sense to > me(it is not something i am going to actively support but will still > test my code in it). > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:57 AM, SOSensible GMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do see a reason to add it. Often we get so wrapped up in the technical > > side of development we forget about the business side. IMO we should > > consider the business use case and benefits to doing things. This to me > > seems like a browser that will be here to stay and will also be popular. Now > > there is the fact that the JS runs different in Chrome as they reported it. > > Seems to me knowing this is move valuable so I clearly see it as something > > that would be appropriate to add. (Perhaps if needed having them change the > > variable returned if needed to something more uniform if that is an issue. > > > John Farrar > > From: John Resig > > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:29 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [jquery-dev] Re: Chrome user agent > > Don't see a reason to add it. Really should be treated any differently than > > any other WebKit engine is (unfortunately named 'safari' in .browsers). > > > --John > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Erik Beeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Chrome on Vista is reporting: > >> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, > >> like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13 > > >> Will this be added to jQuery.browser? > >> --Erik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
