Suggestion re FESCO Ticket #170

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Tue Jun 30 14:59:20 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 30 June 2009, drago01 wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Richard June<rjune at bravegnuworld.com> 
wrote:
> > Does archetecture get exported anywhere by javascript?
> > If so, it would provide a simple way to query the users'  hardware.
>
> No.

Sure it does get "exported", kind of, but at least some parsing is required 
and there are cross browser issues; see navigator.platform, navigator.oscpu 
and/or navigator.userAgent.  Anyway, as others have already noted, the 
usefulness of that info for the above purpose is very much questionable.




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