Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)

2002-12-15 Thread Riccardo Perotti
Thank you guys for all your suggestions. After (not) much though, I decided that the best thing to do is was to skip the browser detection all together, since it really just boils down to the size of the center frame, which is not as mission critical as it was when I wrote this page (to tell the

Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)

2002-12-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Riccardo Perotti wrote: ...and sorry for taking this list so off-topic ... Nah, don't worry about it -- at least you didn't bring up Python :) ...zope zope zope zope zope... :) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] If God had not given us sticky tape, it would have

Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)

2002-12-14 Thread Rich Michaela
Riccardo Perotti wrote: What would be the correct Chimera detection scheeme? Check out: http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html Nothing Chimera specific, but can detect Gecko based browsers. Can also detect Flash plug-in and version.

Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)

2002-12-14 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Riccardo Perotti wrote: What would be the correct Chimera detection scheeme? As part of the family of browsers using the Gecko engine (with others being Mozilla, Netscape 6+, Phoenix, and Galeon), I would think that any attempt to get your pages to display well on $gecko

Re: browser compatibility (was Re: new to unix: basic help)

2002-12-14 Thread Puneet Kishor
Riccardo, Dunno what the correct Chimera detection scheme would be, but Apache recognizes Chimera as Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6 That said, others have responded with better suggestions on cross-browser compatibility. In the