New Netscape 6.2 is not detected correctly by Squeakland and if you have
Opera installed, it thinks that is Netscape..

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rueger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: donderdag 1 november 2001 18:20
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Detecting the plugin (was: Re: [pws] Idea for the Project
> Swiki)
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> 
> Mark Guzdial wrote:
> > 
> > Can JavaScript be written to detect the existence of the Squeak
> > Plugin?  I was thinking that it would be cool if a user doesn't have
> > the Squeak Plugin tried to visit a Project page, they'd get:
> > - a GIF image of what the page looks like and
> > - a link to get the plugin
> 
> I tried that in the first version of Squeakland. It worked halfway
> reliably on Netscape browsers. IE returns an empty list when asked for
> plugins (and support has been pulled completely by now as you know). 
> There are other ways to do this using e.g. cookies, but only 
> mentioning
> the use of cookies usually gets people exited. You know, evil 
> avoiding,
> pure, politically correct Smalltalkers ;-) (lots of winking smilies).
> 
> Michael
> 
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