O2 thinks Camino is out of Date | Comments (0)
Posted in Browsers on 27th October 2006, 12:40 am by Stuart
I was amused to find when I visited the O2.co.uk website with camino, an alert box popped up saying “Your browser is out of date. Would you like to upgrade it now for a better user experience? (Highly recommended)”.
Of course I clicked “ok” as I am always up for a better user experience. I was sent to this page: http://www.o2.co.uk/browserupgrade?check=Netscape which offered me a shiny new version of netscape to replace my outdated Camino. The icing on the cake being the message, “There’s no version of Netscape 8 for mac!”.
Here’s the code that prompted the upgrade; a choice piece of hard to maintain browser detection.
function browserUpgrade(){
setCookie('alreadyVisitedOnce','yes');
var NS, IE, aaa, OP, OP34, Moz, Pho, Saf, CW, PDA, LX;
var NSVer, IEVer, OPVer, MozVer;
Pho = navigator.vendor == "Phoenix";
Moz = navigator.vendor == "Firefox";
NS = (navigator.appName == "Netscape") && !(Pho) && !(Moz);
IE = navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1;
OP = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") > -1;
Saf = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari") > -1;
CW = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("DigExt") > -1; //Is the browser a Carphone Warehouse?
PDA = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("PPC") > -1; // Is the device a PDA?
LX = navigator.platform.indexOf("Linux") > -1; //Is the OS platform Linux?
// OD = navigator.userAgent == null; // OD = Old Devices
if (NS) {
if (navigator.vendorSub == null) {
navvensub = navigator.appVersion;
NSVer = navvensub.substr(navvensub.indexOf(" ").length, 1);
NSVer = parseFloat(NSVer);
} else {
// using vendorSub object, as appVersion comes out as 5.0 (from Mozilla/5) also if it is NS 6 or NS 7 !!!
navvensub = navigator.vendorSub;
NSVer = navvensub.substr(navvensub.indexOf(".").length, 1);
NSVer = parseFloat(NSVer);
}
}
if (Moz) {
//MozVer = parseFloat(navigator.vendorSub);
/*this used to be fine previously. FireFox uses different ways to define the vendorSub dependin on the release.
FireFox .93 = 0.9.3
FireFox 1.0PR = 0.1
FireFox .93 = 1.0.3
*/
MozVer = navigator.vendorSub.split(".");
if (MozVer[2] == null) {
MozVer = MozVer[0]+MozVer[1];
} else {
MozVer = MozVer[0]+MozVer[1]+MozVer[2];
}
}
else if (IE) {
navag = navigator.userAgent;
IEVer = navag.substr(navag.indexOf("MSIE ")+("MSIE ").length, 4);
IEVer = parseFloat(IEVer);
if (OP) {
OPVer = navag.substr(navag.indexOf("Opera ")+("Opera ").length, 4);
OPVer = parseFloat(OPVer);
}
}
//if ((NS) && !(Saf) && !(LX) && (NSVer < 7)) {
if ((NS) && !(LX) && !(Saf) && (NSVer < 7)) {
redir("Netscape");
}
if (Pho) {
var redirectURL = "http://www.o2.co.uk/browserupgrade?check=Mozilla";
if (document.images) window.location.replace(redirectURL); // if Netscape
else window.location = redirectURL; // else if not Netscape
}
if (Moz) {// in case browser is Mozilla Firefox
if (MozVer<103) { // and navigator.vendorSub is less than 1.0.3
redir("Mozilla");
}
}
else if ((IE) && !(CW) && !(PDA) && !(LX)) {
if ((OP) && ( OPVer < 8 ) {
redir("Opera");
}
else if(IEVer <= 5) {
redir("IE");
}
}
}