@Ludwig 's solution was brilliant. A couple of fixes (which didn't have to do with operating system, and I couldn't place as a comment on his original posting because this is too long):
Here they are:
(function (window) {
{
/* test cases
alert(
'browserInfo result: OS: ' + browserInfo.os +' '+ browserInfo.osVersion + '\n'+
'Browser: ' + browserInfo.browser +' '+ browserInfo.browserVersion + '\n' +
'Mobile: ' + browserInfo.mobile + '\n' +
'Cookies: ' + browserInfo.cookies + '\n' +
'Screen Size: ' + browserInfo.screen
);
*/
var unknown = 'Unknown';
// screen
var screenSize = '';
if (screen.width) {
width = (screen.width) ? screen.width : '';
height = (screen.height) ? screen.height : '';
screenSize += '' + width + " x " + height;
}
//browser
var nVer = navigator.appVersion;
var nAgt = navigator.userAgent;
var browser = navigator.appName;
var version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
var majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
var nameOffset, verOffset, ix;
// Opera
if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Opera')) != -1) {
browser = 'Opera';
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 6);
if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
}
}
// MSIE
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('MSIE')) != -1) {
browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
}
//IE 11 no longer identifies itself as MS IE, so trap it
//http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17907445/how-to-detect-ie11
else if ((browser == 'Netscape') && (nAgt.indexOf('Trident/') != -1)) {
browser = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 5);
if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('rv:')) != -1) {
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 3);
}
}
// Chrome
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Chrome')) != -1) {
browser = 'Chrome';
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
}
// Safari
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Safari')) != -1) {
browser = 'Safari';
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 7);
if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Version')) != -1) {
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
}
// Chrome on iPad identifies itself as Safari. Actual results do not match what Google claims
// at: https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/user-agent?hl=ja
// No mention of chrome in the user agent string. However it does mention CriOS, which presumably
// can be keyed on to detect it.
if (nAgt.indexOf('CriOS') != -1) {
//Chrome on iPad spoofing Safari...correct it.
browser = 'Chrome';
//Don't believe there is a way to grab the accurate version number, so leaving that for now.
}
}
// Firefox
else if ((verOffset = nAgt.indexOf('Firefox')) != -1) {
browser = 'Firefox';
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 8);
}
// Other browsers
else if ((nameOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf(' ') + 1) < (verOffset = nAgt.lastIndexOf('/'))) {
browser = nAgt.substring(nameOffset, verOffset);
version = nAgt.substring(verOffset + 1);
if (browser.toLowerCase() == browser.toUpperCase()) {
browser = navigator.appName;
}
}
// trim the version string
if ((ix = version.indexOf(';')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
if ((ix = version.indexOf(' ')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
if ((ix = version.indexOf(')')) != -1) version = version.substring(0, ix);
majorVersion = parseInt('' + version, 10);
if (isNaN(majorVersion)) {
version = '' + parseFloat(navigator.appVersion);
majorVersion = parseInt(navigator.appVersion, 10);
}
// mobile version
var mobile = /Mobile|mini|Fennec|Android|iP(ad|od|hone)/.test(nVer);
// cookie
var cookieEnabled = (navigator.cookieEnabled) ? true : false;
if (typeof navigator.cookieEnabled == 'undefined' && !cookieEnabled) {
document.cookie = 'testcookie';
cookieEnabled = (document.cookie.indexOf('testcookie') != -1) ? true : false;
}
// system
var os = unknown;
var clientStrings = [
{s:'Windows 3.11', r:/Win16/},
{s:'Windows 95', r:/(Windows 95|Win95|Windows_95)/},
{s:'Windows ME', r:/(Win 9x 4.90|Windows ME)/},
{s:'Windows 98', r:/(Windows 98|Win98)/},
{s:'Windows CE', r:/Windows CE/},
{s:'Windows 2000', r:/(Windows NT 5.0|Windows 2000)/},
{s:'Windows XP', r:/(Windows NT 5.1|Windows XP)/},
{s:'Windows Server 2003', r:/Windows NT 5.2/},
{s:'Windows Vista', r:/Windows NT 6.0/},
{s:'Windows 7', r:/(Windows 7|Windows NT 6.1)/},
{s:'Windows 8.1', r:/(Windows 8.1|Windows NT 6.3)/},
{s:'Windows 8', r:/(Windows 8|Windows NT 6.2)/},
{s:'Windows NT 4.0', r:/(Windows NT 4.0|WinNT4.0|WinNT|Windows NT)/},
{s:'Windows ME', r:/Windows ME/},
{s:'Android', r:/Android/},
{s:'Open BSD', r:/OpenBSD/},
{s:'Sun OS', r:/SunOS/},
{s:'Linux', r:/(Linux|X11)/},
{s:'iOS', r:/(iPhone|iPad|iPod)/},
{s:'Mac OS X', r:/Mac OS X/},
{s:'Mac OS', r:/(MacPPC|MacIntel|Mac_PowerPC|Macintosh)/},
{s:'QNX', r:/QNX/},
{s:'UNIX', r:/UNIX/},
{s:'BeOS', r:/BeOS/},
{s:'OS/2', r:/OS\/2/},
{s:'Search Bot', r:/(nuhk|Googlebot|Yammybot|Openbot|Slurp|MSNBot|Ask Jeeves\/Teoma|ia_archiver)/}
];
for (var id in clientStrings) {
var cs = clientStrings[id];
if (cs.r.test(nAgt)) {
os = cs.s;
break;
}
}
var osVersion = unknown;
if (/Windows/.test(os)) {
osVersion = /Windows (.*)/.exec(os)[1];
os = 'Windows';
}
switch (os) {
case 'Mac OS X':
osVersion = /Mac OS X (10[\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
break;
case 'Android':
osVersion = /Android ([\.\_\d]+)/.exec(nAgt)[1];
break;
case 'iOS':
osVersion = /OS (\d+)_(\d+)_?(\d+)?/.exec(nVer);
osVersion = osVersion[1] + '.' + osVersion[2] + '.' + (osVersion[3] | 0);
break;
}
}
window.browserInfo = {
screen: screenSize,
browser: browser,
browserVersion: version,
mobile: mobile,
os: os,
osVersion: osVersion,
cookies: cookieEnabled
};
}(this));