What Is Opera's App Name?

Jeune

Nov 13 2005, 12:21 PM

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?

slu

Nov 20 2005, 08:38 PM

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?

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:

CODE

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.

Tyssen

Nov 21 2005, 02:52 AM

You're gonna bar Opera users from your site just cos a javascript counter doesn't work properly?

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