Including BrowserPlus

This is the simplest possible BrowserPlus website.

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<html>
<head><title>Simplest possible BrowserPlus site.</title></head>
<body>
BrowserPlus says, hello world.
<script src="/js/browserplus.js"></script>
<script>
BrowserPlus.init(function() {
  alert("Yahoo! BrowserPlus installed, v" + 
    BrowserPlus.getPlatformInfo().version);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Run Example

The script tag on line 05 includes the BrowserPlus javascript library which populates the BrowserPlus namespace with a number of functions.

Once this small (and standalone) library is loaded, we can initialize the BrowserPlus plugin, and invoke a built-in function: BrowserPlus.getPlatformInfo(). This function returns the current installed version of the BrowserPlus platform.

Now that you see using BrowserPlus basically involves just the inclusion of a JavaScript library which exposes an API, what happens if BrowserPlus isn't installed? Let's move on to Detecting BrowserPlus...