how to Detect client OS

[sharansh123]

Is anybody there to tell me how to identify client's os, ie differentiate between 98/xp/win2k/win3k as in my application the has to choose this and i want it to automated at pageload.

 

[nickdel]

You want to use the navigator.userAgent option.

var UserOp;
if((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Win') != -1) &&
 (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('XP') != -1)){

UserOp = "Windows XP"
}

and so on...

Cheers

Nick

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

In IE, you also have access to "window.clientInformation.platform", "window.navigator.platform", and "window.navigator.cpuClass" which provide some extra info:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534340.aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533697.aspx

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