BrowserName (Function)

Returns the name of the browser of the Web user ("user agent"). The browser name is returned by the navigation software of the Web user.

Example

NameOfBrowser is string
NameOfBrowser = BrowserName()
IF Position(NameOfBrowser, "MSIE") <> 0 THEN
// The browser is Internet Explorer
ELSE
// The browser can be Netscape, Mozilla, Opera ...
END

Syntax

<Result> = BrowserName()

<Result>: Character string

Name of the browser of the Web user.

Remarks

Examples of browser names

The name returned changes according to the version and to the browser. Some examples of names returned for the most common browsers:

Internet Explorer 6: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0;Windows NT 5.1;SV1;.NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Internet Explorer 11: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
Edge on Windows 10: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240
Edge on Windows 10 Mobile: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.2.1; NOKIA; Lumia 1320) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2486.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 Edge/13.10581
FireFox 44.0: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0"
Google Chrome 47 (Windows version): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.58 Safari/537.36
Safari (MacOS version): Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_1) AppleWebKit/601.2.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0.1 Safari/601.2.7
Safari on iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 9_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/601.1.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.0 Mobile/13B143 Safari/601.1

Versions 20 and later

Pre-launched sessions

If your project uses pre-launched sessions, this function must not be used in the "Initializing" event of the project. This function must be used in the event "Initializing the project after connection to the site".

New in version 20

Pre-launched sessions

If your project uses pre-launched sessions, this function must not be used in the "Initializing" event of the project. This function must be used in the event "Initializing the project after connection to the site".

Pre-launched sessions

If your project uses pre-launched sessions, this function must not be used in the "Initializing" event of the project. This function must be used in the event "Initializing the project after connection to the site".

Component: wd270page.dll