Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 10/23/06 20:54

jaydev wrote:

> I am looking for code to detect and redirect to the corresponding
> browser download page if the clients uses old version, could anyone
> have a sample code for this?

Browser sniffing is oft-mentioned as "doomed to failure."

> I want to use the following version browser only, if they are other
> types I need to redirect to there download page.

Normally, if you write a good site to begin, you won't have to restrict
your audience to a specific set of browsers.

> Internet Explorer version 5.0and above
...the latest is IE 7, and it is only usable by XP SP2 people. What about
W95/W98/ME/Win2K people?

> Netscape Navigator version 7.0 and above
...if you talk them into v 8.n, they will lose their email client.

> Mozilla version 1.3 and above
...the latest version of the suite is SeaMonkey.

And my User Agent string says:
Mozilla/6.0 (Starship Enterprise NCC-1701)

What will you do then?

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-bts
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