[TYPO3-dev] BrowserInfo going beserk...

Jigal van Hemert jigal at xs4all.nl
Sat May 15 19:30:08 CEST 2010


While checking the styling of the Install Tool I noticed that the 
browsers weren't detected correctly. So I collected the output of 
t3lib_utility_Client::getBrowserInfo():

Chrome 4.1
==========
useragent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) 
AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1064 Safari/532.5
browser	safari
version	532.5
all	
webkit	532.5
chrome	4.1
safari	532.5
system	winNT

Safari
==========
useragent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl-NL) 
AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9.1
browser	safari
version	531.9
all	
webkit	531.9
safari	531.9
system	winNT

IE8
==========
useragent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; 
Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; 
SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET 
CLR 3.0.30729)
browser msie
version 6.0
all msie 6.0
system

IE6
==========
useragent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 6.0; Mozilla/4.0 
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; 
.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
browser msie
version 6.0
all msie 6.0
system winNT

IE8 in IE7 mode
===============
useragent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Mozilla/4.0 
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; 
.NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
browser msie
version 6.0
all msie 6.0
system winNT

FF 3.6.3
==========
useragent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9.2.3) 
Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
browser 	firefox
version 	3.6
all 	
gecko 	20100401
firefox 	3.6
system 	winNT

Maybe we do need a more advanced detection system like [1] ?

[1] 
http://chrisschuld.com/projects/browser-php-detecting-a-users-browser-from-php/

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Jigal van Hemert
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