Detect Lion (OS X 10.7) in javascript?

Question

Is there a way to detect if the operating system is OS X Lion or not in Javascript?

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Answer 1

The user agent of Safari (and also Firefox) in Lion is something like

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_1) AppleWebKit/534.48.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Safari/534.48.3

There is "Mac OS X 10_7_1" in it - this indicates Lion (= Mac OS 10.7).

See here: http://www.whatsmyuseragent.com/

You can read the user agent string using "navigator.userAgent"

Answer 2

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html BrowserDetect.OS I don't know its compatibility though. <- This link does use the useragent.