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System requirement checker?

 
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System requirement checker?, Can such a tool be developed in javascript?
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post 27 Mar, 2007 - 11:26 PM
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I've been asked to develop an online based test that can detect certain system requirements for our products. It will need to detect the OS, browser version, shockwave installed and if so what version, flash installed and if so what version. It will then compare to the minimum requirements we determine. For example if one of our online products require Windows XP but the customer is running Windows 98, that it'll show up in red with the minimum required product.

It will need to be cross compatible and the client can't download a thing. Does such a product already exist? If so could someone point me in the right direction.

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post 28 Mar, 2007 - 01:33 AM
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You can use the user agent (UA) string to determine a user’s browser and operating system. I wouldn’t exactly call it reliable though since, for example, users or UAs may lie to get around Web sites insisting that they use a certain browser (usually Internet Explorer or Firefox) when, in fact, the site works fine in the “unsupported” browser. As for Shockwave and Flash, I don’t know much about how to test for them.
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ryanaghdam
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Hopefully you will find this helpful: http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?file...y_dom_navigator

It has many different browser statistics. Some work only in certain browsers/operating systems. I'd test it quite heavily before using it.
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