Programming Forums

froomzer · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 148

I was thinking about method support detection such as id (document.all) but DOM support is no method...
Look he has a browser var
And does for instance if (browser != 'IE 5.0')

montanarry · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 175

Yes.
This is not his only browser specific code..
There are plenty of other examples where he tests for specific functionality

froomzer · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 148

Mmh I dont found a if (buggyDOM) ...

montanarry · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 175

froomzer, You will note that the second variable he declares is "W3CDOM"

froomzer · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 148

Yes was just looking that. In fact var browser is only used for IE 5.0 which AFAIK really buggy

montanarry · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 175

Yes
The major feature to observe is that most of his code tests for something being possible before attempting it. This is probably the most important thing to bear in mind for making sure that your javascript doesn't break things.
(I wouldn't neccesarily recommend all features of this script. But PPK knows a shit load more than I do, so some of the things I wouldn't recommend I might be plain wrong about. Smile

)

froomzer · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 148

Yes that the reason why I wanna to test methods not sniff browser name

montanarry · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 175

As I said. All the sniffing of browser name does is check if the user is using a sufficiently shitty browser that it's not worth trying various things.

froomzer · Enthusiastic Coder Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 148

I think I understand now the strategy : if super crappy IE 5.0 do nothing else if IE 5.xxx do buggy way else do normal things

Programming Forums

Ask your IT question here

detecting that a browser has a buggy DOM implementation