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Posted by Scott W. Spain on April 27, 2000 at 14:42:54:
In Reply to: I'll give it a shot posted by Scott W. Spain on April 27, 2000 at 12:05:27:
If you want to be really cool, you can build a massive browser profile database application. What's that, you ask? It's a database of every browser and version ever built tagged with what each possible combination is capable of. This can result in very efficient, 100% browser-compatible code.
For example, if you use Javascript to detect if a browser supports frames, you're script is going to fail on the browsers that don't support Javascript. Our application reads your browser/version and compares it to our database then outputs "YES" or "NO" on frame compatibility without using Javascript.
Not only can this help you code corretly for your invitation, but you can also provide extremely valuable data to your clients. While capturing opinions you can also give them very detailed data on what their users' systems are capable of, helping design their site in a way that everyone will enjoy it.
We're able to append all these variables to each respondent's data. You can see an example of what we'd get from you if you were participating in one of our surveys by following this link.
Warning: Building and maintaining this massive database of browser profiles is no easy task!
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