132433 - different flavours of windows OS should be able to retireve.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P2)

Description

[Prashant Desale]

We should be able to know which flavour of windows we are running application 
on.
It is specially important for me to set different testing envionment for 
different windows flavours on automation testing.

I tested this with IE too & IE also shows wrong results. I believe [not sure] we 
are grabbing this information in userAgent from System Info & may be system info 
is wrong in itself. [This is just a wild guess]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1] Launch browser on WinXP.
1] Please visit URL provided above.
2] Please notice Actual Results there.

EXPECTED RESULTS:
Mentioned in testcase.

navigator.platform:  WinXP
navigator.userAgent:  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinXP; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) 
Gecko/20020307 Netscape6/6.2.1+
Applet Showing os.name:  [Scrolling text in applet should be "Windows XP".]

ACTUAL RESULTS:
please see yourself... it should be similar to something like follows.

navigator.platform:  Win32
navigator.userAgent:  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) 
Gecko/20020307 Netscape6/6.2.1+
Applet Showing os.name:  [Scrolling text in applet is "Windows 2000".]

All three platform string show up different. First "Win32", second "WindowsNT 
5.1", & third "Windows 2000".
No where it says "Windows XP"

It shows odd results on Win-2000 too.

Comment 1

[Prashant Desale]

Attachment: Testcase

Attaching zip file which contains same testcase [HTML file] at above URL & java
class file used for applet.

Comment 2

[Prashant Desale]

setting higher priority because it can block our testing in future.
Right now It does not block us from doing our automation testing.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

timeless, this is where that replacement for useragent you're supposedly working
on comes in....

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 5

[timeless]

ok, some basics.
1. http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref45.html is wrong
.platform should return win32 on win32 platforms. there's a netcaster reference
on this.

2. Windows NT 5.1 is acceptable, it isn't ideal, but it is acceptable

3. Your version of java (which you didn't specify) probably didn't recognize
windows xp.

this bug is basically filed because of 3. which is (a) not our fault, and (b)
underspecified since you didn't indicate which jvm you were using.