On Jan 23, 11:04 am, Brandon Aaron <brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, John Resig <jere...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Specifically, I have a modal dialog plugin which needs to "detect" IE6
> > > and IE7 in quirks mode. IE6 detection is needed for deciding whether
> > > or not to add an iframe behind the overlay to prevent element bleed-
> > > through.
>
> > This first one is real tricky. I'm not sure what a good solution might
> > be. Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> > The only "solution" that I can think of is to just bite the bullet and
> > put the iframe behind the overlay in every browser - but that's lame.
>
> This is something I need to solve soon to upgrade the bgIframe plugin! This
> is a _very_ visual issue and I haven't found a good way to detect this
> particular issue. I think I may end up just checking to see if the browser
> supports the filter property. Mainly b/c bgiframe makes heavy use of filter
> with default settings. This would make the iframe fix happen in IE7 as well
> but that seems acceptable.

This was the thread that I was using as a basis for the maxHeight
detection:
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=455334

If bgiframe is using the filter property, checking for it makes sense.
Otherwise, it is just blurring the feature/browser detection line ;)

You gotta love browser quirks!
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