The platform-independent way to get your browser and OS are
lz.Browser.getVersion and lz.Browser.getOS (which in Flash runtimes
just calls flash.system.Capabilities.os).
Maybe what you are saying is that you like the way lz.embed parses the
browser string for you to get you predicates like `isIE` and the
browser version. It would be fine by me to add this detail to
lz.Browser, especially if we can do it in a platform-independent way.
On 2009-09-01, at 17:28, Raju Bitter wrote:
Good point, although that's only true as long as there are no Flash
bugs for specific platforms. And there are a few relevant ones,
especially on Linux. If someone needs to check for the OS, it's
still possible to that with flash.system.Capabilities.os.
But I agree, that checking on browsers is more important for DHTML,
so the use case for this information in SWF is so specific that the
object doesn't need to be accessible in SWF.
Thanks for your feedback!
On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:43 PM, P T Withington wrote:
I'm sure we could expose it in swf. But I think the idea was that
swf doesn't depend on your browser, so you shouldn't need to have
browser-based quirks in applications compiled to swf runtimes.
On 2009-09-01, at 06:28, Raju Bitter wrote:
I tried to debug lz.embed.browser, and the object doesn't exist.
On the other hand drawview uses exactly that approach:
> if (lz.embed.browser.isIE) { // IE can take a while to start up.
this._hidden = false;
Finally I realized that lz.embed.browser can of course be accessed
from the DHTML runtime, but it's not available in SWFx. Is that an
undocumented "feature"?
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:
I'm more looking for something like the browser dection we use in
the sprite class, accessing the lz.embed.browser object. Has that
been done?
Thanks,
Raju
On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:20 PM, P T Withington wrote:
lzx> lz.Browser.getVersion()
'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:
1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2'
lzx> lz.Browser.getOS()
'MacIntel'
lzx>
On 2009-08-26, at 18:35EDT, Raju Bitter wrote:
Wouldn't the LzBrower class be the place to put an API for that?
On Aug 27, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:
How can I detect the browser version from within an OpenLaszlo
app? For the CSS/HTML5 stuff I want to show the user a hint
that an application is not supported in IE and other browsers.
