Re: Checking for Navigator 2.0?

At 3:08a 03/26/96, S.N.Brodie@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote:
>Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
>>
>> I would like to have my home page (index.html) check for Netscape 2.0, and
>> automatically redirect to a frames page (main.html) if Nav2 is detected.
>>
>> How do I do this? META tag? CGI? JavaScript? Has anyone done this?
>
>Is this not the the purpose of the <noframes> section of a framed page?
>That would give you the ability to handle any frames capable browser.


Hmm... put the contents of my index.html into the <noframes> section of my
main.html, and then replace the contents of index.html with the contents of
main.html... I guess that would work too. Extra bandwidth, but then I
suppose the amount of time to redirect and the amount of time to download
the extra bytes in a "catch-all" file will probably be close enough that I
wouldn't really gain much speed or efficiency or visitor goodwill by having
separate files, huh... hmm... maybe my brain was working backwards. Well,
frames can do that to a person -- this was my first plunge into it. :-)

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    Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>     Programmer - Excel, AppleScript,
          Mountain View, CA                         ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML
 http://www.natural-innovations.com/     Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter

Received on Tuesday, 26 March 1996 07:33:24 UTC