[tamarian]

Hi folks,

I have an idea to make this hack more powerful, and require a new addition to this hack, possibly in the code.

I thought of this after I noticed I had many Netscape 4.x users, so I created new style set for them, and placed a link on the main page to "Fix Netscape errors" which simply sets their style id to use the original vB dynamic links.

This makes spiders and most surfers use the new (spider friendly) links, while those who click the "Fix link" can use original vB links in their templates.

The disadvantage, is that some users post links to other thread in spider-friendly format, that other members have trouble accessing if they have Netscape.

What I would like to do, instead, is this:

Detect if the visitor is using a browser agent (IE, Netscape, Mozilla), and if so, set their id to use a default style set (with vB's dynamic links)

If the user agent is other than (Mozilla-compatibele) then use a special style id that contain spider-friendly templates.

It initially sounded easy to me, but then I though that spider robots cannot be cookied, and any style id I assign them in my index.php code, may have to be re-checked in other parts of the code beside index.php? i.e. showthread etc.

Is there an easy way of accomplishing this?