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Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 10.4 and the site said: Your installed version of Silverlight is: 0.0.00000.0 So I'm guessing no...

• reitzensteinm 16y ago
  I do not understand what's going through the mind of a developer who makes a site to display a software version number and does not have a special case for not installed. Incredible.
  • pan69 16y ago
    I guess he was making a site to get the Silverlight version, not whether it was installed or not.
    • gruseom 16y ago
      Perhaps he is a Javascript programmer who thinks that zero means no.
      • aerique 16y ago
        You have zero cakes. Can you give me one?
        • mseebach 16y ago
          You have $0 in your account. Do you exist?
  • StavrosK 16y ago
    It's Microsoft software. Who would not have it?! Clearly adding the code branch is an unnecessary waste of time.
  • hx 16y ago
    No, they have a special case for not installed...you just need silverlight to display it.
    • Hexstream 16y ago
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  • thebigshane 16y ago
    function doit(){ var parts = Array("ver-major", "ver-minor", "ver-build", "ver-revision"); //try firefox/non-IE version. var nav = navigator.plugins["Silverlight Plug-In"]; if (nav) { for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++) { document.getElementById(parts[i]).innerHTML = parseInt(nav.description.split(".")[i]).toString(); //getControl().isVersionSupported("2.0"); } } else { //try the IE one now. try { var control = new ActiveXObject('AgControl.AgControl'); //the following would be faster with a binary search, but this is "fast enough" for now. var vers = Array(1, 0, 0, 0); loopMatch(control, vers, 0, 1); loopMatch(control, vers, 1, 1); loopMatch(control, vers, 2, 10000); loopMatch(control, vers, 2, 1000); loopMatch(control, vers, 2, 100); loopMatch(control, vers, 2, 10); loopMatch(control, vers, 2, 1); loopMatch(control, vers, 3, 1); for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++) { document.getElementById(parts[i]).innerHTML = vers[i].toString(); } } catch (e) { document.getElementById("vers-discrete").innerHTML = "Silverlight not installed."; } } } function loopMatch(control, vers, idx, inc) { while(IsSupported(control, vers)){ vers[idx]+=inc; } vers[idx] -= inc; } function IsSupported(control, ver){ return control.isVersionSupported(ver[0]+ "."+ ver[1] + "." + ver[2] + "." + ver[3]); } doit(); All I can say is... "interesting" EDIT: that is the code they are using as of this posting
    • boomhauer 16y ago
      hey, you found my crappy little site ;) the IE version will correctly state "not installed" but apparently the FF/Non-IE is returning a non-null nav object, thus printing the zeros. btw- the reason for creating this site- extracting the exact version number is not straightforward, for some reason. MS decided to let us have isVersionSupported(), instead of a simple getVersion() or similiar. Thus, loop it.
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  • RK 16y ago
    Taking a page from the myriad of sites that require cookies and when cookies are not enabled throw up some horribly cryptic error unrelated to cookies or fail completely.