Object Detection, a good idea?

[Rod]

http://developer.apple.com/internet/javascript/objectdetection.html

Is it a good idea? Personally I think it is, but the browser sniffer is very useful for those bug fixes in specific browsers.

What do you think?

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[Brian Nickel]

Feature sniffing has always been prefered to browser sniffing, I've always viewed it as "The object is always right." Browser sniffing has always weighed down code.

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[Garrett Smith]

Placeholders functions are what programmers use when they want to implement a certain feature, but haven't been able to yet.

Opera has several placeholders. If you try to detect stuff in Opera, you'll find objects without implementations. Mozilla is the same. The createEvent method doesn't do anything.

Here's a little excerpt from a webreference article:

(scroll down to about 60%)
http://www.webreference.com/new/020314.html

The first part of the letter has some good info, too.



(still don't know why my site crashes IE6)

http://dhtmlkitchen.com/

[Rod]

how do you make and object detection for IE's .cssText in my appendobject function?

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