Any Chromium Specific Property? I want to detect chromium browser by JavaScript

[Synaptik]

Recently I posted thread in w3schools forum that how do detect
chromium based browsers through JavaScript and they gave me this
template:

if(window.chromiumSpecificProperty) {


// Run chromium
} else {
alert("Your browser does not support this app");
}

So I'm in search of such property, please help me finding one.

[Adam Prescott]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Synaptik <santosh...@gmail.com> wrote:

 alert("Your browser does not support this app");

Is there a reason you aren't using feature detection over UA sniffing?

[PhistucK]

Also, is there a reason you are not simply sniffing the userAgent string instead of hanging on to proprietary property that may disappear even from Chrome\Chromium?

Feature detection is much better, anyway. Next, proper navigator.userAgent matching. Next, (there might be others before that, but I got nothing right now) proprietary properties.

In the old days, developers used to check for document.all in order to know whether this is Internet Explorer, this made other browsers support it without showing it (typeof document.all === "undefined", but typeof document.all !== void 0).

In short, do not do this.

☆PhistucK

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[Synaptik]

Does all chromium based browsers have same User Agent?
Don't mind, I'm not a hard core programmer,
I just wanna develop app for chromium

[PhistucK]

As far as I know, yes.

☆PhistucK

[Synaptik]

Won't version number effect in detecting the chromium browsers?

[PhistucK]

Your question is not clear.

This (not recommended!!!) method should be sufficient, I guess -

var isChrome = navigator.userAgent.match(/Chrome\/\d+/) !== null;

☆PhistucK

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:05, Synaptik <santosh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Won't version number effect in detecting the chromium browsers?

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[Caleb Eggensperger]

If it's a Chrome web store app:

if (window.chrome && chrome.app && chrome.app.isInstalled) {
// Chrome app is installed.
} else {
// Direct to store to install the app.
}

[Synaptik]

I am asking that user agent strings changed with each subversion, if I
used a particular string in my JavaScript then in next version of
browser JavaScript will become useless.

[Synaptik]

@PhistucK
You are wrong, I have both Google Chrome and SRWare Iron.
I visited http://www.o4e.com/public/phpinfo.php and looked at the user
agent section.

Googe Chrome shows : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.220 Safari/535.1
SRWare Iron shows : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US)
AppleWebKit/534.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Iron/10.0.650.0 Chrome/
10.0.650.0

Even if I don't think about version, the sring of SRWare Iron has iron
in it.

[PhistucK]

Thank you for correcting me.

However, the user agent string test I suggested covers any user agent that has Chrome/X in it, so it would work.

Only the version changes when the... version changes. "Chrome/" always stays (until further notice, which is why you should not use that test).

☆PhistucK

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[Finnur Thorarinsson]

Again, as Adam pointed out... 

> Is there a reason you aren't using feature detection over UA sniffing?   ... ?

[Pam Greene]

Look at the original question. He's trying to use feature detection, of a sort.

> if(window.chromiumSpecificProperty) {

Synaptik, what people are trying to suggest is, don't check for Chromium. Instead, check for whatever it is in Chromium that you're actually trying to use. That way if some other browser also supports what you need, your app will work there too, with no changes.

If you tell us why you need to be running in Chromium, maybe we can give more specific help.

- Pam

[omar solis]

On 28 sep, 16:32, Synaptik <santoshsynap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Recientemente he publicado hilo en el foro w3schools que ¿cómo detectarlos navegadores basados ​​en cromo a través de JavaScript y me dieron estaplantilla:
>
> if (window.chromiumSpecificProperty) {
>
>   / / Ejecutar el cromoElse {}
>
>   alert ("Su navegador no soporta esta aplicación");
>
> }eso esta raro porque debe soportar chromiunelse
>
> Así que estoy en busca de esos bienes, por favor me ayude para encontrar uno.