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Detect browser compatibility to ensure the best user experience with this Ajax hack

Overview This hack from Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites shows you how to use JavaScript to set up Microsoft's and the Mozilla-based browsers' different request objects.

The dynamic features of an Ajax enabled Web site require a properly configured browser to work. Determining which browser is accessing your Web site is an essential step. This hack from Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites, by Bruce W. Perry shows you how to use JavaScript to set up Microsoft's and the Mozilla-based browsers' different request objects.

Title: Ajax Hacks: Tips & Tools for Creating Responsive Web Sites
Author: Bruce W. Perry
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Hack 1: Detect Browser Compatibility with the Request Object
ISBN: 0-596-10169-4; First Edition: March 2006; Copyright © 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Publisher	TechRepublic	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2006	Downloads	207
Format	Downloads
Topics	Network Security, Anti-Hacking

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