Re: newbie Help: HOW to use VBSCript on clientside to detect browser type and version


"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eVSDqKo7JHA.1564@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My goodness, Al, we seem to have rendered
you speechless. :)

LOL. But not you guys. I have switched to the Windows Live Mail Client and often post null replies. When I click on the reply-group button, the mouse pointer is left hovering over the send button, and I inadvertently tap the touchpad on this laptop, or hit the left button.


/Al

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Al Dunbar <alandrub@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When you say "client-side" that implies you're
> talking about doing it through a visited webpage.
> If it's an HTA with VBScript then you must mean
> that you're running your HTA on a local PC. (You
> can't do anything like what you're asking over the
> Internet.)
>
> For IE, a couple of tests that might be good:
>
> 1) The default value in this key should give you the
> path to IE. You can then check the version of the file:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> Paths\IEXPLORE.EXE
>
> 2) This value provides the IE version:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
>
> The latter method may be less trustworthy. On my own
> system, for instance, I installed an HP printer that
> insisted I didn't have a recent enough version of IE. (!)
> I had to change that Registry value to a higher
> number in order to stop the HP installer malfunction.
> I've found a number of similar cases, where software
> installers check the IE version for no good reason.
> So I set that Registry value high and recommend the
> same to others.
>
> -----------
>
> Firefox is awkward because it doesn't register
> its executable in the App Paths Registry key.
> On my system it's accessible in two ways:
>
> 1)
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozil
> la Firefox (1.5)\DisplayVersion
>
> I have v. 1.5 installed. Clearly this method requires some
> parsing, though. It doesn't look like a very dependable
> approach. You'd have to enumerate the Uninstall keys
> (probably with WMI) and check for one with "firefox"
> in the name. However the InstallLocation value should
> give you the FF program folder, where you could check the
> file version. But that then involves another problem:
> Firefox.exe has a file version that's actually the gecko
> version! What you need is the "product version". For that,
> see here for a VBS class that extracts the version info.
> data from a file's resource table:
>
> www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php5#fvinfo
>
> 2) This method might be easier, but I don't know whether
> it's standardized across FF versions. On my system, at least,
> there's a value:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\CurrentVersion
>
> The value there is "1.5(en-US)". So again, you'd
> have to parse the value.
>
> Whatever method you end up with, if I were you
> I'd check it across versions before depending on the
> script. You can't depend on standardization. And you
> can't depend on program path.
>
>
>> > Hi I would like to detect broswer type and version (Example FF2, >> > FF3,
>> > IE, so on) on the client side using VBScript.
>>
>> You will not be able to use vbscript with Firefox - it is not
supported.
> You
>> will need to use javascript instead.
>>
>> > I appreciate any script
>> > on this I can do; and if not available some general guidelines how I
>> > should accomplish this using VBSCript ;example what objects i need >> > to
>> > query. or is it possible to do this through reading registry keys.
>>
>> No registry keys are needed. DHTM should suffice.
> See:http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/browsersniffer.htm
>>
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>
> Thanks for your reply. I am interested in detecting only Firefox and
> IE versions installed. And I like to do so without the browesers
> actually launched.
>
> I have an hta script; so the code that I am looking for to do the
> detection will be included in that hta script written in VBScript.
> There must be a way to detect firefox as well, the script you
> mentioned seems to support detection of several broswers but Firefox
> which is what I need along with IE. any other thoughts? Thanks.
>
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