Plugin: Browser Sniff

Nice work! I like this plugin.

Examples: Warning for old IE6

{exp:browser_sniff} {if browser_name=="ie" AND browser_version<=6} ATTENTION! This site is optimized for the actual IE, please update your browser. Microsoft Update Website/images/system/browser-ie.gif {/if} {/exp:browser_sniff}

Specific Bookmark

{exp:browser_sniff} {if browser_name=="ie"} {/if} {/exp:browser_sniff} {exp:browser_sniff} {if browser_name=="moz" OR browser_name=="ns4"} {/if} {/exp:browser_sniff}

Unfotunately I don’t know how to set an Opera Bookmark Link.

Hi Ronin,

Should there be some code in where you have the ’s above. You mention that this is for bookmarks. Do you mean this will auto-add in a bookmark for the site? If so then I think maybe there is some code missing there. Maybe the forums here have stopped certain text from being shown?

Best wishes,

Mark

P.S. Nice plugin by the way Laisvunas, well done 😊

yep, it was browser specific add to favorites javascript code … don’t know how to post it?

the code works in the preview, and online it is deleted

replace all underlines in the link to use it

{exp:browser_sniff}
{if browser_name=="ie"}
<a href="http://ja_vascr_ipt:wind_ow.exte_rnal.A_ddFavo_rite%27url%27,">_/images/system/site_tools_bookmark.gif <strong>add to favorites</strong></a>

{/if}
{/exp:browser_sniff} 

{exp:browser_sniff}
{if browser_name=="moz" OR browser_name=="ns4"}
<a href="http://ja_vascr_ipt:win_dow.sid_ebar.a_ddPa_nel%27title%27,">_/images/system/site_tools_bookmark.gif <strong>add to bookmarks</strong></a>


{/if}
{/exp:browser_sniff}

If you have any <sc*ipt type=”“> type of text then you will need to swap out one of the letters for something else or place spaces between the start and end of the tags like I have shown just now so either :

<sc*ipt type="">

or

< script type="" >

Please remove the spaces after the opening tag and before the closing tag before using this code

Something like that should hopefully do it for you?

Best wishes,

Mark

now it works, there seem to be several blockers..

Excellent,

Thanks for the code. Yep I think the words script and javascript and perhaps a few others are blocked to stop any weird code injection going on with the forums.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Ronin and Mark,

I am glad that you find this plugin useful.

Browser detection script I used in this plugin is very simple, but it seems to me that for most practical purposes it is good enough.

If someone would need more powerful browser detection, it is very easy to find more powerful function and wrap it into the plugin analogously I have done in Browser Sniff.

Hi Laisvunas, just wanted to say thank you. This is exactly what I need. I want to use the balupton jquery lightbox but only the older version works with IE6 and only the newer version looks good with IE7. Thanks for your efforts. I really appreciate your efforts, please keep up the good work!

Thanks, Timon

I assume browser version detection would only work for IE browsers, right?

{if browser_name=="ie" AND browser_version<=6}

Hiya,

This is from the plugin notes :

Place the following tags in any of your templates:

{exp:browser_sniff}{/exp:browser_sniff}

Place between these tags browser detection code such as this:

{if browser_name=='ie' AND browser_version<=6} some code {/if}

Possible values of browser_name variable: ie (internet exploder), op (opera), konq (konqueror), saf (safari), moz (Gecko browsers), ns4 (mozilla/4), other (other browsers).

Hope that helps.

Best wishes,

Mark

It only answers the question about IE browser version and ns4 in regard to broswer versions. I’d like to detect an older version of safari (as apposed to newer ones) but I doubt this plugin would accommodate that.

Hi Rob Q,

I do not find any reason why Browser Sniff plugin should not accomodate older versions of Safari browser. You can try this code:

{exp:browser_sniff}
{if browser_name=="saf" AND browser_version<3}
Some code
{/if}
{/exp:browser_sniff}

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply, I’ll check it out and let you know how it goes!