Detect OS

[laPistola]

anyone got a decent script that detects the clients OS and version ?

 

ie displays something like: Windows XP

 

looking around the internet and there is nothing really decent?

 

Cheers

[rhodesa]

not that i'm aware of. you can get almost all the way there with jQuery:

$.browser.OS()

[laPistola]

this is what i have for broswer detection, it also has OS detect at the bottom but its to basic

 

var BrowserDetect = {
init: function () {
	this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser";
	this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent)
		|| this.searchVersion(navigator.appVersion)
		|| "an unknown version";
	this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
},
searchString: function (data) {
	for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++)	{
		var dataString = data[i].string;
		var dataProp = data[i].prop;
		this.versionSearchString = data[i].versionSearch || data[i].identity;
		if (dataString) {
			if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1)
				return data[i].identity;
		}
		else if (dataProp)
			return data[i].identity;
	}
},
searchVersion: function (dataString) {
	var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString);
	if (index == -1) return;
	return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index+this.versionSearchString.length+1));
},
dataBrowser: [
	{
		string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "Chrome",
		identity: "Chrome"
	},
	{ 	string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "OmniWeb",
		versionSearch: "OmniWeb/",
		identity: "OmniWeb"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.vendor,
		subString: "Apple",
		identity: "Safari",
		versionSearch: "Version"
	},
	{
		prop: window.opera,
		identity: "Opera"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.vendor,
		subString: "iCab",
		identity: "iCab"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.vendor,
		subString: "KDE",
		identity: "Konqueror"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "Firefox",
		identity: "Firefox"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.vendor,
		subString: "Camino",
		identity: "Camino"
	},
	{		// for newer Netscapes (6+)
		string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "Netscape",
		identity: "Netscape"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "MSIE",
		identity: "Explorer",
		versionSearch: "MSIE"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "Gecko",
		identity: "Mozilla",
		versionSearch: "rv"
	},
	{ 		// for older Netscapes (4-)
		string: navigator.userAgent,
		subString: "Mozilla",
		identity: "Netscape",
		versionSearch: "Mozilla"
	}
],
dataOS : [
	{
		string: navigator.platform,
		subString: "Win",
		identity: "Windows"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.platform,
		subString: "Mac",
		identity: "Mac"
	},
	{
		string: navigator.platform,
		subString: "Linux",
		identity: "Linux"
	}
]

};
BrowserDetect.init();

 

im not to bothered about more details on the Mac or Linux OS but its important for the windows one to say 95,98,ME,XP,Vista

 

is there any dom nodes that will get the information i need??

[Maq]

I was Googling around and found this script for you.  It's a bit lengthy but it seems to work.

 

<br />
<!--<br />
var os, ua = navigator.userAgent;<br />
if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?NT 6\.0/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows Vista";				// Windows Vista ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?NT 5\.2/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows Server 2003";			// Windows Server 2003 ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?(NT 5\.1|XP)/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows XP";				// Windows XP ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows)? (9x 4\.90|ME)/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows ME";				// Windows ME ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?(NT 5\.0|2000)/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows 2000";				// Windows 2000 ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?98/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows 98";				// Windows 98 ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?NT( 4\.0)?/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows NT";				// Windows NT ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Win(dows )?95/)) {<br />
	os = "Windows 95";				// Windows 95 ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Mac|PPC/)) {<br />
	os = "Mac OS";					// Macintosh ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/Linux/)) {<br />
	os = "Linux";					// Linux ???<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/(Free|Net|Open)BSD/)) {<br />
	os = RegExp.$1 + "BSD";				// BSD ????<br />
}<br />
else if (ua.match(/SunOS/)) {<br />
	os = "Solaris";					// Solaris ???<br />
}<br />
else {<br />
	os = "N/A";					// ???? OS ???<br />
}<br />
document.write(os);<br />
// --><br />

[laPistola]

Its the shortest code i seen for this yet and has Vista in it.

perfect thank you very much, i was googling for hours and found nothing usful

[Maq]

Here's the source.  Although it's not in English, not sure what language it is.