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hrishikeshp19
hrishikeshp19

Reputation: 9036

how to identify if user agent is windows 8 tablet?

I have a web application. I my JavaScript, I am identifying devices by user agent string as follows:

_android = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("android");

_iOS = navigator.platform.indexOf("iPhone");

My task is to identify if device is win8 tablet or not?

I have already seen this post. But, the string "Windows NT" is likely to appear in useragent on all the PC browsers. So, I need to find out a client side way of identifying if device is win8 tablet?

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13105

Answers (2)

Ra.
Ra.

Reputation: 2519

User-agent string (Windows) : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh920767(v=vs.85).aspx

Upvotes: 5

Dominic Hopton
Dominic Hopton

Reputation: 7292

You can't identify if it is a tablet or not, but you can identify if it has touch or not. This is the IE user agent here:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0; Touch)

The touch at the end is only present if touch is.

However, if you are just trying to identify touch capabilities, you should use feature detection rather than user agent sniffing.

Upvotes: 5

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