How to obtain browser version in web app?

[Andre Garzia]

you can use javascript and do in browser command to get the browser version.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Martin Baxter <
mblivecode at harbourhosting.co.uk> wrote:

> On second thoughts I should have had my coffee before replying as you
> are talking about a stack not an irev script and my reply is irrelevant.
>
> In the revlet case I can't recall if there is a simple way off the top
> of my head. It is possible, but awkward to get the user agent from
> javascript and pass it to the revlet in its startup parameters. Not sure
> if server variables are available inside the revlet itself.
>
> Sorry for the preceding noise
>
> Martin Baxter
>
> On 02/06/2011 09:08, Martin Baxter wrote:
> > Hi Kee,
> >
> > You have to parse out the HTTP_USER_AGENT string yourself I think
> >
> > This old test script might get you started:
> >
> > <?rev
> > put $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] into tua
> > put offset("MSIE",tua) into tie
> > put offset("Safari",tua) into tmac
> > put offset("Opera",tua) into topera
> > put offset("Gecko/",tua) into tgecko
> >
> > put "<p>user agent: " & tua & "</p>"
> > put "<p>offset of MSIE: " & tie & "</p>"
> > put "<p>offset of Safari: " & tmac & "</p>"
> > put "<p>offset of Opera: " & topera & "</p>"
> > put "<p>offset of Gecko: " & tgecko & "</p>"
> > ?>
> >
> > Sample output
> >
> > user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17)
> > Gecko/20110420 Firefox/3.6.17
> >
> > offset of MSIE: 0
> >
> > offset of Safari: 0
> >
> > offset of Opera: 0
> >
> > offset of Gecko: 62
> >
> >
> > Probably needless to say that user agent strings aren't standardised.
> >
> > Martin Baxter
> >
> >
> >
> > On 01/06/2011 23:48, Kee Nethery wrote:
> >> It is possible to get any information about the browser running a web
> >> based livecode stack? If so, how? Didn't see anything in the
> >> dictionary.
> >>
> >> For example, Safari 5.0.5 or IE 7.2 or anything like that?
> >>
> >> Thanks, Kee Nethery
>
>
>
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