Comments for Daniel Linn's Blog

Comment on Detecting specific browsers with JavaScript by Paul

Paul — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:48:32 +0000

I definitely agree with @brian. Safari has given me problems all times, almost nothing works with it if you use javascript.

Regards

Comment on SIMPLE: Detect Browser with PHP (And Automatically Switch CSS Files!) by Chris

Chris — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:03:18 +0000

Hey Daniel:

here is a encapsulated way to determine the browser: http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/

Cheers!

Comment on Detecting specific browsers with JavaScript by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:08:43 +0000

@brian

Once you start getting involved with a lot of JavaScript and frameworks you’ll find lots of holes in CSS that at the very least will make the site non-compliant with W3C standards. At worst they’ll work in all but one browser. In this case, it was Safari.

Comment on Detecting specific browsers with JavaScript by Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:56:24 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I’ve been looking into other options with PHP, which I hope will work for everything. I find it strange that it recognizes Chrome when using the Safari keyword. I wonder if this is related in any way to WebKit.

As far as IE, you may want to try some different keywords, such as “ie 5″ I find this works in some cases. I’ll post a PHP solution in a bit; it might work a bit better than this option.

**EDIT**

Here is your answer. In the user agent string a lot of browsers identify themselves with the engine you use and the browser they’re like. Here is Chrome:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

You’ll see that Safari is part of the string. A possible solution may be to find something specific to the Safari string and go with that. UA strings can be found here.

Comment on Detecting specific browsers with JavaScript by Puneet

Puneet — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:22:47 +0000

Thanks a lot..this works.. but i couldn’t use it for IE. Infact when u use this from Chrome it takes the safari keyword, instead of chrome

Comment on Detecting specific browsers with JavaScript by brian

brian — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:57:01 +0000

you are going about this backwards btw. what the hell would ever program a site to look good in IE first and then move to safari.

Comment on Combine and compress your CSS and Java by How To Minimize Your Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads | Internet Articles | Updates | Tips & Tricks

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:47:21 +0000

[…] Combine and compress your CSS and Java “So you have your site running on the latest and greatest Java libraries, but your supporting CSS and JavaScript files are really starting to slow things down. You’re no JavaScript expert, so what do you do? Lucky for us some other people have already encountered this problem and have a great solution.” […]

Comment on Combine and compress your CSS and Java by How To Minimize Your Javascript and CSS Files for Faster Page Loads at Internet Articles | Updates | Tips & Tricks

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:36:02 +0000

Comment on Combine and compress your CSS and Java by Idetrorce

Idetrorce — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:16:42 +0000

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

Comment on Combine and compress your CSS and Java by 最小化 Javascript 和 CSS 文件 « Ross Wan’s World!

最小化 Javascript 和 CSS 文件 « Ross Wan’s World! — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:09:35 +0000

[…] Combine and compress your CSS and Java […]