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how can i find out the OS the browser is running on ?

thanks

Mel wrote:
> how can i find out the OS the browser is running on ?
>

This was discussed on this newsgroup about a week ago. Search for "OS".


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"Mel" <> wrote:

>how can i find out the OS the browser is running on ?

Your browser? You should know already.

Your user's browser? It's often in the User Agent string and hence in
your log files, but even if it is there then it may not be accurate.

Why do you want to know?

Steve

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Mel wrote:

> how can i find out the OS the browser is running on ?
>
> thanks
>
>
Wild guess? The information is in the environment but useless because
it can be changed to whatever the user wants.

And why care? HTML is not OS specific.

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On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:23:59 -0500 Mel wrote:

> how can i find out the OS the browser is running on ?

> thanks


With a PHP command.

While sitting in a puddle Richard scribbled in the mud:

> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:23:59 -0500 Mel wrote:
>
>> how can i find out the OS the browser is running on ?
>
>> thanks
>
>
> With a PHP command.
>
>

Could you show an example of that on your batcave site?

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"Duende" <> wrote
> While sitting in a puddle Richard scribbled in the mud:

> > With a PHP command.

> Could you show an example of that on your batcave site?

That's nasty. You know how hard it is to steal PHP code!

While sitting in a puddle rf scribbled in the mud:

> "Duende" <> wrote
>> While sitting in a puddle Richard scribbled in the mud:
>
>> > With a PHP command.
>
>> Could you show an example of that on your batcave site?
>
> That's nasty. You know how hard it is to steal PHP code!
>
>
Richard is a smart gentleman. He doesn't need to steal the code. He knows all
about php and how to make it work for him.

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"Duende" <> wrote
> While sitting in a puddle rf scribbled in the mud:
>
> > "Duende" <> wrote
> >> While sitting in a puddle Richard scribbled in the mud:
> >
> >> > With a PHP command.
> >
> >> Could you show an example of that on your batcave site?
> >
> > That's nasty. You know how hard it is to steal PHP code!

> Richard is a smart gentleman. He doesn't need to steal the code. He knows
all
> about php and how to make it work for him.

Ah, yes, well then when he publishes his solution we will undoubtedly
correct his intentional mistake and tell us that to get the OS one would
parse the superglobal variable entry

$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]

rather than use some so called PHP "command" which PHP has none of IRRC
unless RtS is confusing command with function.

rf wrote:
> PHP has none of IRRC unless RtS is confusing command with function.

Well, print (and a few others) are syntax instead of functions in PHP.
You could call them commands, I guess.