Detect-and-route with JavaScript

By Molly E. Holzschlag
2005-03-31


Keep users happy by using savvy scripts
If happy users keep coming back, then you'll want to keep them happy by serving optimum pages to each site visitor and by keeping all the technical details under the hood. Find out how to choose or craft JavaScript sniff-and-route code that helps keep the user's experience an easy and pleasant one.

If happy users keep coming back, then you'll want to keep them happy by serving optimum pages to each site visitor and by keeping all the technical details under the hood. Find out how to choose or craft JavaScript sniff-and-route code that helps keep the user's experience an easy and pleasant one.

If you're like most developers, you're looking for ways to create a long-term relationship with your site visitors. One way to ensure user loyalty is to develop sites using client-side JavaScripts that seamlessly match a visitor's individual circumstances. With today's variety of browsers and platforms, differences in screen resolution, available plug-ins, and other technology, the challenge for the Web developer is to provide high-end sites that don't exclude lower-end visitors.

Tutorial Pages:
» Keep users happy by using savvy scripts
» Serving user needs
» Planning ahead
» The rock-bottom lowest-common-denominator
» Route for technology, not content
» Finding scripts or rolling your own
» Detecting the details
» Routing by browser type
» Matching pages to display resolution
» Testing your scripts
» Summing up
» Resources


First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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