[TYPO3-core] RFC: #14201: getBrowserInfo delivers wrong info

[Susanne Moog]

On 26.04.2010 11:03, Steffen Kamper wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: bugfix
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=14201
> 
> Branches:
> trunk, 4_3
> 
> As the most userAgents starts with Mozilla, we always get "netscape" as
> result which is wrong and doesn't help.
> 
> The parsing of UA is not precise and compares the wrong way.
> 
> This patch use a regular expression and a list of the known browsers,
> it's easy to maintain and to add new browsers.
> 
> As the TS condition only need one browser, and some browsers return more
> than one result, the last result is taken as main browser info. But an
> additional array "all" contains all founded browsers in UA.
> 
> The result parsing isn't perfect as there are many possible UA strings,
> but it reflects the most common browsers.
> 
> Example on my machine:

+1 by reading and testing with:

Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 10.04
Seamonkey 1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04
Konqueror 4.4  on Ubuntu 10.04
Opera 10.01 on Ubuntu 10.04
Flock 2.0 on Ubuntu 10.04

Nice!

Susanne