Justin said:
Why is it that when I post a question to usenet that gets replies,
they quite frequently don't answer question asked?
Two reasons:
1) A lot of times people asking questions don't ask the right questions, or
don't understand that there's a better way to do what they're trying to do,
etc. If posters only got their direct questions answered, they wouldn't
learn how to do things the correct way to avoid their question altogether.
2) Many trolls on usenet are know-it-alls whose purpose in life is to prove
that they know more about a topic than others by mocking their questions,
posting sarcastic questions and replies, and pointing them to information
which is way beyond what they are looking for.
Since you didn't note in your original post that you already know about
object detection and that it is the preferred way to judge browser support
for various things, a reader of this group would naturally assume you
weren't away of it and point you to resources that would guide you to a much
better way of performing your task.
If you preface a question like yours with information about why you want to
do things the 'bad' way for now, and that you know of the better long-term
solution already, you might get a response closer to what you're looking
for.
And on a side note, I have no idea what the answer to your question is. I
hate Safari
