[TYPO3-dev] Browser-Condition and Mozilla Firefox

[Peter Russ]

Michael Stucki schrieb:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I was wondering why "Mozilla" is not listed in the "browser" condition of
> TSref. So I went to try it out and discovered that Firefox 1.0.4 will be
> reported as "Netscape" with version "5".
> 
> This is caused by the following useragent information:
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050925
> Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-2sarge5)
> 
> Well, I think it does make sense to distinguish between different FF
> versions since there _are_ differences between some versions.
> 
> My first suggestion is to change the browserInfo method as follows:
> 
> This will still work and return true:
> [browser = netscape] AND [version = 5.]
> 
> This is new, should be appended below the above condition in order to take
> precedence:
> [browser = firefox] AND [version = 1.]
> 
> 
> The remaining question is: What should we do with Mozilla browsers (the
> suite, which afaik is discontinued)?
> 
> I am not sure but think that the versions can be distinguished by the
> "Gecko" version (date). So this lead me to a second suggestion:
> 
> Add a "gecko" as a valid "browser" condition, match if the date of the Gecko
> engine is at least September 1st, 2005:
> [browser = gecko] AND [version = >20050900]
> 
> Which is the way to go? Suggestions welcome.
> 
> - michael

Please correct me if I'm wrong:
Couldn't you check with the [browser] condition on ANY string?
Or did I get you wrong?

Regs. Peter.
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