The Roxen Browser Feature Support database makes it possible to
use features that are only supported by a few browsers and still be
compatible with all browsers. This is done through a database of
features supported by the different browsers. The <if>
tag together with the if-plugin supports is then used on the
pages to make them more dynamic and sensitive to which browsers that
use different capabilities.
Pages are not customized for a certain browser, but rather for
browsers that support different features. When a new browser is
released, all that is necessary is to determine what features it
supports. Once that has been done, and the database updated, all
pages using the supports database will work with it.
Some features might work to a lesser degree on some browsers. Old
versions of the Macintosh version of Netscape support JavaScripts,
but some JavaScripts make the Netscape browser hang. If you have such
JavaScripts, you would probably want the supports database to make
sure they are not sent to that version of Netscape. On the other
hand, if you have less complicated JavaScripts you will probably want
to send them.
To make the supports database work for you, you might need to tweak
it yourself. This can be done by the Roxen WebServer administrator by
changing the Client supports regexps variable. It is
available under the Globals / Settings.
Since new browsers get released all the time, updated versions of
the supports database are by default fetched regularly from our
update server at www.roxen.com.
