On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:53, ARTHUR,Evan wrote:
> (http://www.studyinaustralia.gov.au). I took the liberty of passing
> these comments on to the site managers. They have responded that the
> site has been set up to auto detect browser type and to default to
> text only, bypassing the splash page, when appropriate.
I'm curious as to how they can determine if the browser has a flash
plug-in loaded, has javascript enabled, etc just from the browser type.
I browse with konqueror 2.1.1 with javascript, java, cookies and images
disabled. I haven't loaded a flash plugin.
I get redirected to
http://www.studyinaustralia.gov.au/Tools/CheckBrowser.asp?Load=/enter.html
which is blank page, the source of which contains only the code:
<html><script language='javascript'>
document.location='/Tools/CheckBrowser2.asp?Load=/enter.html&Height='+screen.height+'&Width='+screen.width;
</script></html>
I suspect they need to do a bit more work to ensure the detection
algorithm fails in a nice way, ie failure result in a page usable by
the browser.
Regards
Gordon
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