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@NogDogNov 07.2007 — #By far the best solution is to design your [X]HTML/CSS to be logically and semantically marked up so that the page degrades "nicely" when various visual display attributes are not supported by the client. (For instance, for an extreme case, what happens if someone views the page with a plain-text-only browser?)
While a PHP script could make an educated guess at the client type by parsing the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] value, that header is not required to be sent by the client nor is it in any way guaranteed to contain the correct value.
If all you are worried about is customizing your output for particular versions of IE, I would suggest using[url=http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html]IE conditional comments[/url] in your markup.
Check for CSS capabilities
Some browsers (<IE6) have no support for the :hover tag, as you are well aware. I need a quick way to check for browsers that do not have this support, so that I can conditionally include some CSS rules to change how my site behaves. I don’t want to use JavaScript, since it sucks, so that’s why I’ve posted here. Any solutions? Thank you!
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@NogDogNov 07.2007 — #By far the best solution is to design your [X]HTML/CSS to be logically and semantically marked up so that the page degrades "nicely" when various visual display attributes are not supported by the client. (For instance, for an extreme case, what happens if someone views the page with a plain-text-only browser?)While a PHP script could make an educated guess at the client type by parsing the $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] value, that header is not required to be sent by the client nor is it in any way guaranteed to contain the correct value.
If all you are worried about is customizing your output for particular versions of IE, I would suggest using