what's the best way to detect browser?

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Hey all, I'm looking for the best way to detect browser, especially I'm looking to distinguish browsers as three different groups: ie6 and older, netscape4 and older browsers ie7 khtml/webkit/gecko/opera browsers

any idea?

thanx in advance

Pat

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Don't know if it's the best way, but you can get the User-Agent in the controller with request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].

b

Patrick Aljord wrote:

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Will this work?

case request.user_agent when /(gecko|opera|konqueror|khtml|webkit)/i    return :gecko when /msie\s+7\.\d+/i    return :ie7 else    return :older_browser end

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http://www.agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/browser_detect