My browser name sniffer, updated for Google Chrome.

The highlighted section accommodates for the structure of Google Chrome's userAgent string, otherwise Chrome would be detected as Safari:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13

var browserName = navigator.appName ( Read more... )

I've had to make the following changes in Dojo Release 1.1.1 in order to get Dojo to work in both IE and Firefox:

/dojox/data/dom.js:

Line 37:

/* CCP: Bugfix: mimetype of "text/xml; charset=UTF-8" set by the server causes DOMParser.parseFromString to fail with the following error ( Read more... )

NOTE: This code has been updated.

I recently came across a need to sniff a user's browser name with JavaScript. I could just use navigator.appName, but many browsers report Netscape even when that's not really the case (e.g.: Firefox). I've seem some rather inelegant browser name scripts out there. So, I decided to write my own:

var browserName ( Read more... )