[texworks] "Download TeXworks" box, please test

[George LeCompte]

Got an error message:
navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.7
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
navigator.appName = Netscape
navigator.platform = Win32

Hope this helps.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Fine in standard Chrome (16.0.912.63 ) on Windows Xp
>
> navigator.appVersion = 5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like
> Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
> navigator.userAgent = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7
> (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7
> navigator.appCodeName = Mozilla
> navigator.appName = Netscape
> navigator.platform = Win32
>
> Downloads TeXworks-setup-0.4.3-r858.exe successfully
>
> paul
>
>
> On 19 December 2011 09:37, Atri <badshah400 at aim.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>


-- 
Please respond to george at lecompte.org
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://tug.org/pipermail/texworks/attachments/20111218/e7c25754/attachment.html>