Need to detect Safari Browsers

[Nitronic]

I got this javascript code below and each time i got to a safari browser
it thinks its netscpe any ideas. But i threw in Safari code but it doesn't
work.

var browserName=navigator.appName;
// Menu offset y coordinate

if (browserName=="Netscape")
{
var StartTop=97; // Menu offset x coordinate
var StartLeft=-309;
}
//else
{
if (browserName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer")
{
var StartTop=105; // Menu offset x coordinate
var StartLeft=-310;
}
else if (browserName=="Safari")
{
var StartTop=95; // Menu offset x coordinate
var StartLeft=-130;
}
}

[unruly]

IIRC, Safari's user-agent string contains "compatable". You might go
digging for that if you want to find them. It is, of course,
unreliable. However it works in most cases.

[Randy Webb]

Nitronic wrote:

I got this javascript code below and each time i got to a safari browser
it thinks its netscpe any ideas. But i threw in Safari code but it
doesn't work.

That code doesn't "work" (reliably) in any browser. What browser the
user has is irrelevant. Read this groups FAQ, specifically section 4.26

http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_26

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Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq & newsgroup weekly

[Nitronic]

Thanks for the help. Guys keep sending posts if u have any other ideas :)

Hello Nitronic,

I got this javascript code below and each time i got to a safari
browser it thinks its netscpe any ideas. But i threw in Safari code
but it doesn't work.

var browserName=navigator.appName;
// Menu offset y coordinate
if (browserName=="Netscape")
{
var StartTop=97; // Menu offset x coordinate
var StartLeft=-309;
}
//else
{
if (browserName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer")
{
var StartTop=105; // Menu offset x coordinate
var StartLeft=-310;
}
else if (browserName=="Safari")
{
var StartTop=95; // Menu offset x coordinate
var StartLeft=-130;
}
}

[RobG]

Nitronic <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:<36*********************@news.cogeco.ca>...

Thanks for the help. Guys keep sending posts if u have any other ideas :)

I can't understand your issue.

navigator.appVersion reports:
5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.8.5 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Safari/85.8.1

navigator.userAgent reports:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/85.8.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85.8.1

Both strings contain 'Safari'. Of course, Safari can masquerade as
something else, so your issue isn't always fixed.

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Rob.