looking to scan browser and redirect to it's site

[PDA_User]

Hello there,

I hope someone can help me.
I'm looking for a script to put in my index-file that looks at the browser of the visitor of my site and redirect it to the correct site.

I'm traying to create different websites for netscape, IE and firefox for systems as PDA, desktop and Mac.

Is there a script that can do all that??

Thanks for helping me out!
Greetingz from the Netherlands!
Mike

[mburt]

First of all, Netscape and Firefox have the same appName.

<script>
var netscape="http://whatever.com"
var ie="http://whatever.com"
if (navigator.appName=="Netscape") {window.location.href=netscape}
if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer") {window.location.href=ie}
</script>

Twey told me before that this was a bad idea, so take his advice.

[Twey]

It is... a very bad idea. Redirecting for small screens (such as those seen on mobile devices) is also a pretty bad idea, but somewhat better since occasionally there genuinely is no other way to do it (such as with mobile browsers that support only cHTML). However, these browsers tend not to support Javascript either. You should use a server-side script to check the user agent and redirect based on that.

[mburt]

I agree.

[Twey]

In fact, checking the Accept: header would be even better, if cHTML has a designated MIME-type.

[mburt]

How would you read the browser on a mobile device, if you can't use JavaScript?

[Twey]

I repeat:

However, these browsers tend not to support Javascript either. You should use a server-side script to check the user agent and redirect based on that.

[mburt]

Mesa stupid.

[PDA_User]

Thanks for your respons!
Great to read that questions posted in this forum are answert!!!
(I've posted this question at other forums over a month now but no reaction!
Here...THE SAME DAY!!!!!!! WOW!!! )

Ill try the script out!
Yesterday after posting here I found this script:

<script>
if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("PPC")!=
-1){top.location.href='http://pda.whatever.com';}
</script>

But I have now experians with java-programming so I have no idea what it does or how to use it. Or even if it is any good!

Can someone explain it a bit to me?

Thanks!
Greetz From the Netherlands
Mike W.

[Twey]

That's not Java, it's Javascript.

It's not good. Not good at all. You should follow my suggestion above.