[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> New Netscape 6.2 is not detected correctly by Squeakland and if you have
> Opera installed, it thinks that is Netscape..

I _think_ the latter bit is deliberate: IIRC, Opera uses the Netscape
plugin.


//snipped//

> 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).

OK, avoiding the dreaded cookies, why not go Apache/PHP? (I'm not sure
that you can do this with javascript -- maybe you can) you'd do
something like:

PHP browser recognition:

If IE 5.5 serve a page: "sorry, those nice people at Microsoft deemed
that our plugin is no longer supported"

else if IE serve a page with the VBscript

else if (just about) anything else, serve a page with the javascript.

Given that Squeakland runs Linux anyway, as does Je77, all you need is
Apache (which you've probably got) the PHP module and away you go. 

Ask nicely and I'm sure someone on the PHP list would write you the
script!

I did peek for something to do this entirely in PHP in the PHP manual,
but couldn't find anything: I could so easily be wrong ;-)

BTW can someone take a peek at the alt attribute for the Tux image of
the Linux download page?  I'm sure it has a rather disconcerting
reference to Microsoft!

Cheers

John

-- 
If you don't care about your data, like file systems which automagically
destroy themselves and have money to burn on 3rd party tools to keep
your
system staggering on, Microsoft (tm) have the Operating System for you.

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