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Announcement: New plug-in browsertools

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Hello, thou this is not a "new" plug-in

http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/browsertools
as it's had a few release already. but here is the new version and this is the pre-release...

find the pre release here.

So some information on it? Detecting the user’s browser type and version is helpful in web applications that can help harness some of the newer tricks in web development. With the browser type and version you can notify users about challenges they may experience and suggest they upgrade before using such application. What you want is to redirect if they are a mobile device? What you want is to have some browser specific CSS without have to hack your file? This plug-in, browsertools is what you need.

One of the strongest browser detection scripts for cms made simple, you can hook in to almost anything. Use in ScriptDeploy directly in a CSS script get bullet proof scripts.

So to the question "what if the user is masked?" Well I would say this, if the user’s browser and browser version is hidden and if your visitor is echoing a false user agent, then they have the where about’s to use a browser you don’t need browsertools to overcome. They know the risks and they are a .% of your target market. So with that, I say to heck with them :) ..


Try it out.. it'll let you get a very accurate outputs.. unlike the older version you can do very powerful mobi test..


EX:

Firefox
3.6.7
Firefox 3.6.7
Windows
Firefox3-6-7
Firefox367
false

Also you can test with action=test and the param against=foo

Live test

unknown
unknown
unknown unknown
unknown
unknownunknown
unknownunknown
false
Please test and let me know.. I'll be releasing the new version here shortly.. Cheers -Jeremy