Re: Re: Frames vs. Tables

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

 Date:  Wed, 03 Dec 1997 12:39:09 +1100
 To:  hwg-theory(at)mail.hwg.org
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At 18:19 2/12/97 -0600, Jim wrote:
>Is it possible to detect CSS ability (whether turned on/off in the
>browser or non existant) to output the correct HTML?
>
>Something like this:
>
>HTML for text.
>
>if browser is CSS capable:
>          if CSS is turned on:
>                 insert HTML for drop shadow
>           else nothing
>else nothing
>end

Yes - we discussed this on newtech only recently.  I think the final answer
was something like this:

if((document.layers)||(document.all)) {
  document.write('etc.....

It only answers the capability, not turned on :)
Have a look in the newtech archives for full details (Browser 4 detection).


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Gilbert Chandler College
http://ariel.unimelb.edu.au/~gilbert

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