Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / November 2005

Rich@nospam.com said the following on 11/28/2005 1:23 PM:

When you find it, can you post back the results it gives when executed
on a MAC or a Linux based system?

But, stop looking as trying to figure out what you are trying to figure
out goes outside the security boundaries of the browser.

But, if your users need you to tell them the OS, they don't need a
computer.....

There's a place called the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) that you
can search for such things.

You can look at the platform property of the navigator object, or you
can try the clientInformation object (they seem identical for all
practical purposes).  All you will get for the platform is 'Win32' which
is probably anything from Windows 95 onward (or maybe even Windows 3.1
with the 32-bit stuff added, I dunno) and note that users can likely
spoof that if they want.

The properties of both objects are shown in IE by the following ( -
Mozilla/Gecko does not support the clientInformation object):

<script type="text/javascript">

var HTMLstring = '';
if ('object' == typeof navigator){
  HTMLstring += '<h1>Navigator properties</h1>';
  for (var prop in navigator){
    HTMLstring += '<b>' + prop + '</b>: ' + navigator[prop] + '<br>';
  }
}
if ('object' == typeof clientInformation){
  HTMLstring += '<h1>clientInformation properties</h1>';
  for (prop in clientInformation){
    HTMLstring += '<b>' + prop + '</b>: ' + clientInformation[prop] +
'<br>';
  }
}
document.write(HTMLstring);

</script>

Navigator object:
<URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_navigator.asp

clientInformation object:
<URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_clientinfo
rmation.asp