[thelist] JS to detect Mac

Liorean Liorean at user.bip.net
Fri Feb 1 11:29:00 CST 2002


At 11:31 2002-02-01 -0500, aardvark wrote:

>anyone got a pretty simple piece of JS that can essentially detect
>if a user is on a Mac or not?
>
>i need to adjust an offset of a DHTML widget for a client, and they
>want client-side detection over server-side because they frequently
>save dynamic pages to floppies to take places... among other
>things...

var re=/mac/i;
var mac=re.test(navigator.platform);
// or, with a variable detection:
// var mac=typeof
navigator.platform!='undefined'?re.test(navigator.platform):false;


// Liorean




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