Block visibility based on browser?

New Member Joined: Jan 14, 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Canada

Hello all, (first post here, new RN user...)

Does anyone know of a way to control the visibility of a block based on the users browser?

TIA.
Aaron....

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:16 pm

Interesing question, I'm not saying I know the answer, but do you want all blocks to have this functionality, or just one?

Just trying to understand exactly what you are wanting to do?

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:27 pm

Hi,

Well, I'm basicly wondering if I could have two similar blocks with one being shown to IE users and the other to say FF or Opera users. This could also be used, I guess, based on version. eg: one block for versions below v.4 and the other for browsers v4 & above.

Today, I'm just looking for a quick fix for a block I am working on that works great with IE, but is failing in FireFox...

Thanks for the reply,
Aaron.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:07 pm

Well it should be possible to use Javascript to detect the browser that the user is using. See this link: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

But, it may be easier to try and fix the problem which is causing your code not to work in Firefox.

registered · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:14 pm

Sure its certainly possible, reading from the user-agent of the browser people are using.

Look at includes/counter.php and that should give you the necessary code to work