window.onload=startUp; //Handle all onLoad event items function startUp() { var BrowserDetect = new BrowserDetectObj(); BrowserDetect.init(); //Deal with IE bugs that can't be addressed any other way if (BrowserDetect.browser == 'Explorer') { alert('You are using a crippled broswer.'); fixQtag(); } } //Add quotes for browsers that don't support the Q tag function fixQtag() { var tags = document.getElementsByTagName('q'); for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++) { tags[i].innerHTML = '“' + tags[i].innerHTML + '”'; } } //Object for doing nice browser detection //From: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html //I only changed it so I could make it callable function BrowserDetectObj() { this.init = function () { this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser"; this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent) || this.searchVersion(navigator.appVersion) || "an unknown version"; this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS"; } this.searchString = function (data) { for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++) { var dataString = data[i].string; var dataProp = data[i].prop; this.versionSearchString = data[i].versionSearch || data[i].identity; if (dataString) { if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1) return data[i].identity; } else if (dataProp) return data[i].identity; } } this.searchVersion = function (dataString) { var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString); if (index == -1) return; return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index+this.versionSearchString.length+1)); } this.dataBrowser = [ { string: navigator.userAgent, subString: "OmniWeb", versionSearch: "OmniWeb/", identity: "OmniWeb" }, { string: navigator.vendor, subString: "Apple", identity: "Safari" }, { prop: window.opera, identity: "Opera" }, { string: navigator.vendor, subString: "iCab", identity: "iCab" }, { string: navigator.vendor, subString: "KDE", identity: "Konqueror" }, { string: navigator.userAgent, subString: "Firefox", identity: "Firefox" }, { string: navigator.vendor, subString: "Camino", identity: "Camino" }, { // for newer Netscapes (6+) string: navigator.userAgent, subString: "Netscape", identity: "Netscape" }, { string: navigator.userAgent, subString: "MSIE", identity: "Explorer", versionSearch: "MSIE" }, { string: navigator.userAgent, subString: "Gecko", identity: "Mozilla", versionSearch: "rv" }, { // for older Netscapes (4-) string: navigator.userAgent, subString: "Mozilla", identity: "Netscape", versionSearch: "Mozilla" } ] this.dataOS = [ { string: navigator.platform, subString: "Win", identity: "Windows" }, { string: navigator.platform, subString: "Mac", identity: "Mac" }, { string: navigator.platform, subString: "Linux", identity: "Linux" } ] }