Package: collective.browserdetector
AboutA helper Plone extension which makes easier to include resources like CSS,
JS, KSS or HTML specific to different types of browsers or platforms.InstallingThis package requires Plone 3.x or later (should work with 2.5.x also).Installing without buildoutInstall this package in either your system path packages or in the lib/python
directory of your Zope instance. You can do this using either easy_install or
via the setup.py script.After installing the package it needs to be registered in your Zope instance.
This can be done by putting a collective.browserdetector-configure.zcml
file in the etc/package-includes directory with this content:<include package="collective.browserdetector" />or, alternatively, you can add that line to the configure.zcml in a package or
Product that is already registered.Installing with buildoutIf you are usingbuildoutto manage your instance installing
collective.browserdetector is even simpler. You can install
collective.browserdetector by adding it to the eggs line for your instance:[instance]
eggs = collective.browserdetector
zcml = collective.browserdetectorThe last line tells buildout to generate a zcml snippet that tells Zope
to configure collective.browserdetector.If another package depends on the collective.browserdetector egg or includes
its zcml directly you do not need to specify anything in the buildout
configuration: buildout will detect this automatically.After updating the configuration you need to run the ‘’bin/buildout’’, which
will take care of updating your system.UsageThere are several browsers, mostly older releases, which renders websites
in different way then common browsers of latest versions. So in case
you need to support these browsers with your website, one possible way
how to include fixes for their different behaviour is to include individual
resources targeting specific browsers.Plone by default includes IEFixes.css file (with a few others) where are
fixes / hacks related to all IE browsers for example, but what if you need
different fixes for each IE version?
There comes collective.browserdetector in turn.1. Lazy way (quick & start)install browser detector via Quick Installergo to ZMI:/portal_skins/collective.browserdetectorselect css module for your browser (by its name) and customize itadd your css hacks into customized css filego to ZMI:/portal_css and register your new resource, see example of generic setup configuration::<stylesheet title=""
    id="IE6.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" rendering="import"
    cacheable="True" compression="safe" cookable="True" enabled="1"
    expression="python:portal.restrictedTraverse('@@browser-detector').isIE6"/>don’t forget to set the right expression, but don’t worry the only thing which you have to take care is its last part “isIE6” in this example, you should use the right detector attribute according to targeting browser (list of available detector attributes is included below)And that’s it.2. Using policy or themeregister collective.browserdetector as dependency of your policy package (in the metadata.xml profile module)include your css files with fixes in the skin layers (you can copy prepared css files from collective.browserdetector/collective/browserdetector/skins/collective.browserdetector)register your css files via generic setup (see collective.browserdetector/collective/browserdetector/profiles/default/cssregistry.xml.example for an example)And that’s it.3. Detector attributesHere are available detector attributes usable for conditions::isSecure, isWebKit, isOpera, isChrome, isSafari, isSafari3,
isSafari4, isIE, isIE7, isIE8, isIE6, isGecko, isGecko3,
isGecko2, isFirefox, isFirefox1, isFirefox2, isFirefox3,
isWindows, isMac, isLinux, isSafariOnMac, isSafariOnWin,
isGeckoOnMac, isGeckoOnLinux, isGeckoOnWin, isFirefoxOnMac,
isFirefoxOnLinux, isFirefoxOnWin, isOperaOnMac,
isOperaOnLinux, isOperaOnWin, isChromeOnMac, isChromeOnLinux,
isChromeOnWinFor more information see interfaces.py module.4. Tipsyou can use detector conditions for kss and javascript resources alsoyou can use detector in templates to render different (X)HTML depending on browser/platform for example::<tal:block define="detector nocall:context/browser-detector">
    <tal:firefox condition="detector/isFirefox">
        HERE COMES THE CODE FOR FIREFOX
    </tal:firefox>

    <tal:ie condition="detector/isIE">
        HERE COMES THE CODE FOR IE
    </tal:ie>
</tal:block>Additionally you can display browser detection information in the browser detector portlet. Go to portlets management page (@@manage-portlets) and add
new portlet “Browser Detector”. Portlet also has a link (in the footer) to browser view displaying results of each detection methods.Copyright and Creditscollective.browserdetector is licensed under the GPL. See LICENSE.txt for details.Author:Lukas Zdych.Homepage:DMS4U.Developed forNEXTUP.Changelog1.1.2 - (2009-08-20)fixed broken package by missing manifest file
[lzdych]1.1 - (2009-07-08)removed content providers and editable border from the detection view
[lzdych]fixed mistate in the README example using detector in templates
[lzdych]added explicit condition attributes related to Firefox browser
[lzdych]added firefox related stylesheet templates
[lzdych]1.0 - (2009-06-16)Initial release