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Re: browser detection and redirection

Posted by Gιrard Talbot on 10/24/06 01:14

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote :
> GΓ©rard Talbot wrote:
>
>> Jay wants to invite people and to assist people using old browsers
>> into upgrading their browser versions.
>
> I wasn't sure that is what he meant, as he included "I want to use the
> following version browser only, if they are other types I need to
> redirect to there download page."
>

I think he meant webpages like

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
http://www.opera.com/download/
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
http://www.icab.de/dl.php
etc.


> ..which made me think he was designing pages that would not work in
> older browsers. You could be right, let's ask him. ;-)
>

Yes, he may have misworded all that.

> I love it when I go to a site with Opera or Firefox and am presented
> with a page that tells me "you need to upgrade to Internet Explorer 5.0
> or better".

Sometimes, I have been served such kind of message. Not often though.
The web is changing. Slowly but it is changing.

> So I change the UA string to "IE6.0 WinXP"

Do you know of a webpage that describes exactly (step by step) how to
modify the registry files to do this? I'm still searching...

and it lets me
> right in. As if I want to upgrade to a seven year old browser...
>

Sites which offer you to upgrade to IE5 are for sure bad sites,
unmanaged sites.

GΓ©rard
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