[texworks] "Download TeXworks" box, please test

Atri badshah400 at aim.com
Sun Dec 18 21:37:12 CET 2011


Hi!

On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 00:51 +0530, Atri wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 14:33 +0100, Stefan Löffler wrote:
> > available at
> > http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0325258/projects/c/texworks/testTwDownloads/testTwDownloads.html
> > 
> 
> > It would be great if you could head over to the page mentioned above,
> > and if you see the box tell me if the info in it is correct. For
> 
> From openSUSE 12.1, using Firefox 8.0, I am able to see the box but it
> only offers me "Download Sources" instead of links to suitable packages
> for openSUSE. Debuginfo is pasted below...
> 
> navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (X11)
> navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0)
> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
> navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
> navigator.appName = Netscape
> navigator.platform = Linux x86_64
> 

Actually, I now see that Firefox since version 4.0 does not allow the
reporting of vendor or distribution specific information in the
userAgent string. This is discussed in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591573

So I am not sure how only based on the useragent string, one would be
able to distinguish between ubuntu or openSUSE for example, or even
detect if the Linux distribution being used is one of the two. The
userAgent string in both cases (Ubuntu and openSUSE) would only report
"Linux x86_64" (or i686).

Similarly, detection of openSUSE does not work on Google Chrom as well,
and I can see only the "Get sources" link. Debuginfo from Google Chrome
follows:-

navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.7
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
navigator.appName = Netscape
navigator.platform = Linux i686

Hope this information is useful.
Bye
-- 
Atri



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