Chapter 10. Using the navigator, location, and history Objects
In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the navigator, location, and history objects. We’ve seen all these objects before, but we’ll take a look at them in depth here. These objects give you tremendous power in JavaScript. I’ll start with the navigator object.
The navigator Object
The navigator object, also called the clientInformation object in IE4+, refers to the browser itself. In early versions of the Netscape Navigator, the navigator object actually functioned as the top-level object, although that role has now been taken over by the window object. As we’ve already seen in earlier ...
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