Softcore software development » jquery http://tea.cesaroliveira.net It's all about the cycles Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:04:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 deprecate this http://tea.cesaroliveira.net/archives/51 http://tea.cesaroliveira.net/archives/51#comments Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:06:39 +0000 Cesar http://www.cesaroliveira.net/?p=50 What I thought was a bug in the jQuery.browser, turns out to be a bug, but on a function that was deprecated (according to their nightly source) and therefore not likely to be fixed. The bug occurred when calling jQuery.browser.safari in Google Chrome. It would return true instead of false because the user agent had the word webkit in it (yes. That’s the browser sniffing method they use). Some simple methods work better than others.

I need browser detection so I can point users to helpful places when they have javascript disabled. Turns out my site is really broken when js is disabled. And when css is disabled as well, but that’s another problem. I made a quick and dirty jQuery plugin that includes konqueror, Google Chrome, and fixes the bug mentioned above.

Using it is as simple as :
$.browser.konqueror
$.browser.chrome

But don’t take my word for it. Try out the demo and view the source! It’s under the MIT license. It’s not included in the source because it is just too much overhead.

]]> http://tea.cesaroliveira.net/archives/51/feed 0 Cross browser tidbits http://tea.cesaroliveira.net/archives/50 http://tea.cesaroliveira.net/archives/50#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:25:05 +0000 Cesar http://www.cesaroliveira.net/?p=49
  • for each…in doesn’t work in Opera/IE/Safari. So avoid it when creating web pages and use for loops instead. In fact, you shouldn’t even be using it in arrays. oops. (Javascript is special in this way)
  • While location is defined by most browsers, most let you redefine it in a local scope. Not Opera
  • $(‘<a>’) may look correct in jQuery, but it will not work properly in IE. You must close the element tag. So it is $(‘<a />’)
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