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Jeune
post Nov 13 2005, 12:21 PM
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My dad has a Nokia communicator, that phone which looks like a small laptop, and so I tried to look at my My Webpagewith it.

The communicator uses the Opera browser and as it turned out, my javascript, a counter that counts how many days before my birthday and christmas didn't display the number of days correctly.

So while I am trying to discover how it will wok in Opera, I would barr people using Opera browsers from my site. Problem is I don't know Opera's appname.

Can anybody tell my what it is?

My code will looke like this

CODE

if (navigator.appName="Whatever Opera's app name is") {
    my code etc etc;
}


I know internet explorer's appName is Microsoft Internet Explorer and
Firefox's is Netscape.

Is Opera's appName Opera?

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post Nov 20 2005, 08:38 PM
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QUOTE(Jeune @ Nov 13 2005, 02:21 PM)
My code will looke like this

CODE

if (navigator.appName="Whatever Opera's app name is") {
    my code etc etc;
}


I know internet explorer's appName is Microsoft Internet Explorer and
Firefox's is Netscape.

Is Opera's appName Opera?
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No, Opera's appName is Netscape! It might seem weird, but it has been chosen for compatibility reasons....

You need to check the User Agent String to detect whether a Opera browser is used. The User Agent String will include the name "Opera", so your code could be written like this:

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if ((navigator.userAgent).indexOf("Opera") != -1) {
    your code etc etc;
}


If you really want to go in to the gory details of browser detection check out the Browser Capabilities Project.

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Tyssen
post Nov 21 2005, 02:52 AM
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You're gonna bar Opera users from your site just cos a javascript counter doesn't work properly? huh.gif

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