if (navigator.appName.indexOf("WebTV") != -1) // WebTV detected
   document.writeln("How do you like that WebTV?");
else // not WebTV
   document.writeln("When are you going to get WebTV?"); 

You can use this technique to redirect WebTV users to a WebTV-optimized version of your site. Furthermore, you can take advantage of this sniffer to overcome various bugs in the WebTV implementation of JavaScript.

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