"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eVSDqKo7JHA.1564@xxxxxx
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> My goodness, Al, we seem to have rendered
> you speechless. 
LOL. But not you guys. I have switched to the Windows Live Mail Client and
often post null replies. When I click on the reply-group button, the mouse
pointer is left hovering over the send button, and I inadvertently tap the
touchpad on this laptop, or hit the left button.
/Al
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> Al Dunbar <alandrub@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:uQH5nJk7JHA.4632@xxxxxx Quote:
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>> "mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:eZRvwib7JHA.1432@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > When you say "client-side" that implies you're
>> > talking about doing it through a visited webpage.
>> > If it's an HTA with VBScript then you must mean
>> > that you're running your HTA on a local PC. (You
>> > can't do anything like what you're asking over the
>> > Internet.)
>> >
>> > For IE, a couple of tests that might be good:
>> >
>> > 1) The default value in this key should give you the
>> > path to IE. You can then check the version of the file:
>> >
>> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
>> > Paths\IEXPLORE.EXE
>> >
>> > 2) This value provides the IE version:
>> >
>> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer
>> >
>> > The latter method may be less trustworthy. On my own
>> > system, for instance, I installed an HP printer that
>> > insisted I didn't have a recent enough version of IE. (!)
>> > I had to change that Registry value to a higher
>> > number in order to stop the HP installer malfunction.
>> > I've found a number of similar cases, where software
>> > installers check the IE version for no good reason.
>> > So I set that Registry value high and recommend the
>> > same to others.
>> >
>> > -----------
>> >
>> > Firefox is awkward because it doesn't register
>> > its executable in the App Paths Registry key.
>> > On my system it's accessible in two ways:
>> >
>> > 1)
>> >
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozil Quote:
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>> > la Firefox (1.5)\DisplayVersion
>> >
>> > I have v. 1.5 installed. Clearly this method requires some
>> > parsing, though. It doesn't look like a very dependable
>> > approach. You'd have to enumerate the Uninstall keys
>> > (probably with WMI) and check for one with "firefox"
>> > in the name. However the InstallLocation value should
>> > give you the FF program folder, where you could check the
>> > file version. But that then involves another problem:
>> > Firefox.exe has a file version that's actually the gecko
>> > version! What you need is the "product version". For that,
>> > see here for a VBS class that extracts the version info.
>> > data from a file's resource table:
>> >
>> > www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.php5#fvinfo
>> >
>> > 2) This method might be easier, but I don't know whether
>> > it's standardized across FF versions. On my system, at least,
>> > there's a value:
>> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\Mozilla Firefox\CurrentVersion
>> >
>> > The value there is "1.5(en-US)". So again, you'd
>> > have to parse the value.
>> >
>> > Whatever method you end up with, if I were you
>> > I'd check it across versions before depending on the
>> > script. You can't depend on standardization. And you
>> > can't depend on program path.
>> >
>> >
>> >> > Hi I would like to detect broswer type and version (Example FF2,
>> >> > FF3,
>> >> > IE, so on) on the client side using VBScript.
>> >>
>> >> You will not be able to use vbscript with Firefox - it is not > supported. Quote:
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>> > You
>> >> will need to use javascript instead.
>> >>
>> >> > I appreciate any script
>> >> > on this I can do; and if not available some general guidelines how I
>> >> > should accomplish this using VBSCript ;example what objects i need
>> >> > to
>> >> > query. or is it possible to do this through reading registry keys.
>> >>
>> >> No registry keys are needed. DHTM should suffice.
>> > See:http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...sersniffer.htm
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET - 2004-2007
>> >> Please reply to the newsgroup. This email account is my spam trap so I
>> >> don't check it very often. If you must reply off-line, then remove the
>> >> "NO SPAM"
>> >
>> > Thanks for your reply. I am interested in detecting only Firefox and
>> > IE versions installed. And I like to do so without the browesers
>> > actually launched.
>> >
>> > I have an hta script; so the code that I am looking for to do the
>> > detection will be included in that hta script written in VBScript.
>> > There must be a way to detect firefox as well, the script you
>> > mentioned seems to support detection of several broswers but Firefox
>> > which is what I need along with IE. any other thoughts? Thanks.
>> >
>> > >>
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>> >
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