Package com.vaadin.client

Class BrowserInfo

java.lang.Object
com.vaadin.client.BrowserInfo
public class BrowserInfo extends Object
Provides a way to query information about web browser. Browser details are detected only once and those are stored in this singleton class.
Since:
1.0

  • Field Details

  • Method Details

    • get

      public static BrowserInfo get()
      Singleton method to get BrowserInfo object.
      Returns:
      instance of BrowserInfo object

    • isIE

      public boolean isIE()
      Checks if the browser is IE.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is IE, false otherwise

    • isEdge

      public boolean isEdge()
      Checks if the browser is Edge.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is Edge, false otherwise

    • isFirefox

      public boolean isFirefox()
      Checks if the browser is Firefox.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is Firefox, false otherwise

    • isSafari

      public boolean isSafari()
      Checks if the browser is Safari.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is Safari, false otherwise

    • isSafariOrIOS

      public boolean isSafariOrIOS()
      Checks if the browser is Safari or runs on IOS (covering also Chrome on iOS).
      Returns:
      true if the browser is Safari or running on IOS, false otherwise

    • isChrome

      public boolean isChrome()
      Checks if the browser is Chrome.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is Chrome, false otherwise

    • isGecko

      public boolean isGecko()
      Checks if the browser using the Gecko engine.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is using Gecko, false otherwise

    • isWebkit

      public boolean isWebkit()
      Checks if the browser using the Webkit engine.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is using Webkit, false otherwise

    • getGeckoVersion

      public float getGeckoVersion()
      Returns the Gecko version if the browser is Gecko based. The Gecko version for Firefox 2 is 1.8 and 1.9 for Firefox 3.
      Returns:
      The Gecko version or -1 if the browser is not Gecko based

    • getWebkitVersion

      public float getWebkitVersion()
      Returns the WebKit version if the browser is WebKit based. The WebKit version returned is the major version e.g., 523.
      Returns:
      The WebKit version or -1 if the browser is not WebKit based

    • isOpera

      public boolean isOpera()
      Checks if the browser is Opera.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is Opera, false otherwise

    • isTouchDevice

      public boolean isTouchDevice()
      Checks if the browser runs on a touch capable device.
      Returns:
      true if the browser runs on a touch based device, false otherwise

    • isAndroid

      public boolean isAndroid()
      Checks if the browser is run on Android.
      Returns:
      true if the browser is run on Android, false otherwise

    • isAndroidWithBrokenScrollTop

      public boolean isAndroidWithBrokenScrollTop()
      Tests if this is an Android devices with a broken scrollTop implementation.
      Returns:
      true if scrollTop cannot be trusted on this device, false otherwise

    • getBrowserMajorVersion

      public int getBrowserMajorVersion()
      Returns the browser major version e.g., 3 for Firefox 3.5, 4 for Chrome 4, 8 for Internet Explorer 8.

      Note that Internet Explorer 8 and newer will return the document mode so IE8 rendering as IE7 will return 7.

      Returns:
      The major version of the browser.

    • getBrowserMinorVersion

      public int getBrowserMinorVersion()
      Returns the browser minor version e.g., 5 for Firefox 3.5.
      Returns:
      The minor version of the browser, or -1 if not known/parsed.
      See Also: