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Detecting Konqueror/Safari

isMinOpera4 = fOperaVersion >= 4;

isMinOpera5 = fOperaVersion >= 5;

isMinOpera6 = fOperaVersion >= 6;

isMinOpera7 = fOperaVersion >= 7;

isMinOpera7_5 = fOperaVersion >= 7.5;

}

This completes the first section of the browser detection code. With just this section, it is possible to

determine if a browser is Opera; and if it is, which version. Next up is the other

problem

browser: Safari.

Detecting Konqueror/Safari

Both Konqueror and Safari are based on the KHTML project and so can be considered the same. The

problem is that you have no way to tell what version of KHTML the browser is using. Therefore, you can

detect whether KHTML is in use, but you still need to rely on the browser version numbers to indicate

browser capabilities.

To start, take a look at a few KHTML-based user agent strings:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.2.2; SunOS)

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux; de, en_US, de_DE)

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux 2.4.20)

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; FreeBSD) (KHTML, like Gecko)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/51 (like Gecko) Safari/51

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; es-es) AppleWebKit/106.2 (KHTML, like

Gecko) Safari/100.1

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko)

Safari/125.1

The first four strings are from Konqueror; the last two are from Safari. Notice a few things in this mix-

ture. First, not all the user-agent strings contain the string

“KHTML”

, so it is necessary to search for

“Konqueror”

and

“AppleWebKit”

“Safari”

as well as

“KHTML”

. Apple suggests that you look for

“AppleWebKit”

instead of

“Safari”

because other developers may embed the Apple Web Kit to create

other browsers. Second, the Konqueror version number has no relation to either the Apple Web Kit or

Safari version numbers.

So to start, you should determine if the browser is KHTML based:

var isKHTML = sUserAgent.indexOf(“KHTML”) > -1

|| sUserAgent.indexOf(“Konqueror”) > -1

|| sUserAgent.indexOf(“AppleWebKit”) > -1;

After

isKHTML

is set, you can then determine which KHTML browser is being used.

if (isKHTML) {

isSafari = sUserAgent.indexOf(“AppleWebKit”) > -1;

isKonq = sUserAgent.indexOf(“Konqueror”) > -1;

}

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