Browser detecting

[Anon]

Hi, this isnt really a coding question but I would like to know if running a browser detect script for each page from a website slows down loading for users?

I have used such a script (a class actually) on my main template page, which detects the browser for each page loaded. From here it obviously loads instantly but I cant really test this from eleswhere and I would hate for this to make loading unbearable.

By the way, the reason for this is that depending if the user is using IE or Netscape6, the script will strip headers from pages for use with iframes while older browsers detected will bring up standard html frames and keep the headers.

Any thoughts?

Much appreciated!
-steph

[bastien]

why not run it once an store the value in a session? Then just check on each page if the session is set, if not then call the function that does the check, if yes then call the appropriate page or css depending on how you set things up.

hth

Bastien