Whoops, missed this one. We've recently discussed this over on the taglib and commons mail lists.
The end resolution was that an OS/Browser checker was better fitted as a Bean that sits inside JSPTL than a custom tag library. So the next step is to work on a Bean that can analyse a request. It fits quite well with another itch I have, for a generic log reporting mechanism in Java, so I will be hoping to integrate and develop it in there. Bringing all these browser detection ideas into a common place seems the obvious thing to do, I'll forward a post I made to commons/taglib suggesting a project to improve on log-creation and log-reporting, browser-detection is an integral part of that. Sorry to butt in, Bay On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi Jay, > > Yeah, coming down to having two tags. Would be great to add them to > logic:present tag, but not sure it would work - seems to me there is a > fundamental difference in that logic:present is checking for values in the > request. > > What do others think? > > Dave > > PS Cross posting to dev list too. > > > > > Jay Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/04/2001 11:11:34 > AM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: (bcc: David Hay/Lex/Lexmark) > Subject: RE: OS / Browser tag? > > > > I like the idea for the OS and Browser check. However I would suggest that > the checks be made separately and not within one tag. How about if we can > modify the logic:present to have two more parameters? ( that can also go for > notPresent ). > > E.g. > > <logic:present os="unix"> > <!-- the code --> > </logic:present> > > <logic:present browser="Netscape" version="4.0"> > <!-- the code --> > </logic:present> > > Above approach will result in less of a learning curve and fewer tags. > > My $0.02 > > Jay Patel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Assenza, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:13 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: OS / Browser tag? > > > I have something written that will do the server-side browser detection, > etc. but not a tag for it. It's actually an adaptation of a nice PHP-based > script that I stumbled on a while back. :) It'd be a great idea for a tag > though - go for it! :) > > Chris > > Christopher Assenza > Phone: 412.201.6026 > Fax: 412.201.6060 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ACCESSDATA > Moving Your Business from Point A to Point e.SM http://www.accessdc.com/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: OS / Browser tag? > > > > > Sorry, maybe that wasn't clear! > > I am basically looking for an IF tag which utilises the OS and/or the > browser that the client is running on. > > eg IF Unix and Netscape THEN.... > would be <logic:IF_os_browser os="unix" browser="Netscape"> > //do something > </logic:IF_os_browser> > and the tag would automatically check for current client os and browser. > > Hope that's clearer! > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > > > > "David_Hay/Lex/Lexmark.LEXMARK"@sweeper.lex.lexmark.com on 10/03/2001 > 04:17:59 PM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: David Hay/Lex/Lexmark) > Subject: OS / Browser tag? > > > > > > Hi everyone. > > Just wondering if anyone has written a tag to do something specific to OS or > Browser? > > I'm probably going to write my own if no-one else has already done it! > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > > > >
