Browser Detection Scripts
Before turning to Cross-Browser Dynamic HTML (which, for the sake of brevity, is abbreviated CBDHTML), one more topic should be discussed. The key to developing HTML documents that implement CBDHTML functions correctly on multiple browsers and platforms and that degrade gracefully on older or third-party browsers is the capability to successfully detect the Web browser being used. Again, many solutions are freely available for this problem; one of the most extensive is Netscape's Ultimate JavaScript Client Sniffer, which you can download from http://developer.netscape.com/docs/examples/javascript/browser_type.html.
When included within an HTML document and evaluated on the client Web browser, the Client Sniffer creates ...
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