Problems with browser selector

[Christian Sengstock <cs...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
we're working with cocoon 2.1.8.

We use(d) the browser selector to handle different views for different devices.
We always had a lot of problems with the browser selector because it's
just not logical what he does ;)

Maybe someone hacked out !what! the browser selector does and can tell?

Thanx for any hints,
Chris


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just to give you a actual example, i'll demonstrate:

** User-agent string to be matched:

Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026;
Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Safari/413

** Some test configurations of the map:selector and some (wired) results:
Info:
'Mozilla/5' should be the default desktop browser (not IE);
'NokiaN95' is specific for this device
'Safari/413' are most of the other nokia cellphone browsers

1.)
<browser name="A" useragent="Mozilla/5" />
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />
<browser name="C" useragent="Safari/413" />

=> A (cool, first comes first)

2.)
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />
<browser name="A" useragent="Mozilla/5" />
<browser name="C" useragent="Safari/413" />

=> A ?

3.)
<browser name="C" useragent="Safari/413" />
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />
<browser name="A" useragent="Mozilla/5" />

=> A ??

Okay he likes "Mozilla/5", maybe because it's the first macht in the string?

4.)
<browser name="C" useragent="Safari/413" />
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />

=> C

'Safari/413' comes last, so maybe it's the first match in the list yeah?

5.)
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />
<browser name="C" useragent="Safari/413" />

=> C ???

okay, what is it then?

6.)
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />
<browser name="A" useragent="Mozilla/5" />

=> A ???

7.)
<browser name="A" useragent="Mozilla/5" />
<browser name="B" useragent="NokiaN95" />

=> A ???

... I just can't say what happens.

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Re: Problems with browser selector

[Joerg Heinicke <jo...@gmx.de>]

Christian Sengstock <csengstock <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe someone hacked out !what! the browser selector does and can tell?

It's too long ago that I used it to tell from mind how it works, but from the
documentation [1] I'd assume that it is always A, B and C and only the order of
the when expressions in the pipeline matters.

Joerg

[1] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/default/browser-selector.html


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