Jason Hunter (www.servlets.com he's the guy that wrote the orielly servlets
books) has one available, and I believe there's a free version and a version
which you can purchase that has more bells and whistles.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 10:34 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Browser detection taglib
>
>
> Nice - like this lots - but I think there's already a browser bean
> available - anyone know where?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn Bayern [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Browser detection taglib
>
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Christian Royle wrote:
>
> > A case statement is undoubtedly the best/simplest logic for this
> > implementation.
> >
> > IMHO, if you are going to address the browser 'type', then you
> might
> > consider extending the taglib to include at least an appropriate
> > sub-set of other client-side properties.
>
> Quick thought:
>
> Perhaps this logic could be integrated with with JSPTL's currently
> planned
> mechanisms for conditional logic? In other words, instead of
> introducing
> a tag that supports syntax like
>
> <useragent:if browser="netscape" version="5">
>
> a tag could expose a data structure that describes the browser.
> Then,
> later in the page, JSPTL's <if> and <choose>/<when>/<otherwise> tags
> could
> traverse this data structure. E.g.,
>
> <useragent var="browser"/>
>
> ...
>
> <jx:choose>
> <jx:when test='$browser.type="netscape"'> ... </jx:when>
> </jx:choose>
>
> Shawn
>
