[wp-hackers] Objectifying the browser detection

[Stephen O'Connor]

Does wp facilitate this already? Why would browser detection be needed? 
Wouldn't this go against the WP mantra of standardization?

Yes, I wholly admit to being a standards-stickler.

- Stephen

Chris Coggburn wrote:

> That would actually make life alot easier, I think that alot of things 
> in wordpress need to move to objects.
>
> David House wrote:
>
>> Just a note that maybe we should move the browser detection globals 
>> ($is_IE,
>> $is_gecko and so on) over to a $ua object or something? Maybe:
>>
>> class browser {
>>  function uastring() { /* returns ua's identifying string */ }
>>  var $is_IE;
>>  var $is_gecko;
>>  var $is_lynx;
>>  //etc.
>> }
>>
>> Just for some more global reduction.
>>
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