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OS detection script for CSS link tag - is this correct syntax?

a quickie for who ever gets it first:

Is this the correct syntax for conditionally including a link to a mac and PC stylesheet.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

</script>

b1xml2

if (navigator.userAgent.match(/Mac/i)) {
document.write('<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="/styles_mac.css">');
} else {
document.write('<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="/styles.css">');

}

drstuey

ASKER

Thanks, I have implemented that, but I won't know if that worked until I run it through Browser Photo tommorrow.

I was hoping for an explanation as well. I was quite happy with the OS detection part of the script, the explanation I read for doing it this way:

version = navigator.appVersion;
if (version.toLowerCase().indexOf("mac")!=-1)

seemed entirely reasonable to me. It was as much the syntax of everything else I was concerned about. The version I posted doesn't seem to be doing anything, it seems like both CSS links are visible to all browsers so the Macs see the PC CSS link as well and that overrides the Mac one????

b1xml2

it is the wrong property that you are using, to get the Mac platform, it would be safer to use the userAgent property.

drstuey

ASKER

drstuey

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ooops, I must have gone back in my browser and reposted my comment

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drstuey

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Naughty me I have been prompted to give the points out.

Yes it works. It was my mistake that I thought it didn't.

cheers