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Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version

From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version
Date 2015-04-01 14:50 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <mfh0kb$k3r$2@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:35:52 +0800, Richard Maher wrote:

> On 4/1/2015 8:19 PM, JJ wrote:
>> Don't rely on User-Agent to determine the browser engine and version.
>> Detect by browser features and bugs instead.

> On 4/1/2015 8:19 PM, JJ wrote:
>  > Don't rely on User-Agent to determine the browser engine and version.
>  > Detect by browser features and bugs instead.

> Excellent! Please show me (or even just tell me) how you you would
> detect Safari's implementation of speechSynthesis not .speak()ing or an
> ONEND event listener not firing on a completed SpeechSynthesisUtterance.

Identify a 'feature' whose presence or absence in the browser correlates 
to the differences in browser behaviour which you are interested in, and 
test for the presence or absence of that feature.

The best place to find out about such features is in the browser 
changelogs and / or browser specific forums.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-01 16:49 +0800
  Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2015-04-01 19:19 +0700
    Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-01 20:35 +0800
      Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 14:50 +0000
        Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 09:35 -0700
          Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 06:29 +0800
        Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 06:28 +0800
          Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-02 01:04 +0200
      Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 10:53 +1100
        Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 09:18 +0800
          Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 15:12 +1100
        Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 10:25 +0800
          Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 18:44 +1100
  Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2015-04-01 17:59 -0700
    Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 10:20 +0800
      Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 20:27 +0800
        Re: Forced to browser-sniff Safari version Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-02 21:06 +0800
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              Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-03 07:38 +0800
                Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-03 07:56 +0800
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                Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> - 2015-04-05 08:59 -0700
                Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-06 06:56 +0800
                Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-03 10:02 +0800
              Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2015-04-03 08:14 +0800
            Re: Opera mobile has laryngitis Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-04-04 12:49 -0400
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