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Inaccurate platform detection

Reports a common JavaScript pattern for detecting the browser or operating system in which the script is run. In addition to pointing out non-portable constructs, these platform detection patterns are often incomplete and easily fooled. For most cases, detection of individual environment features is preferable to attempting to detect the entire platform.

Patterns detected include:

  • document.all

  • document.layers

  • navigator.userAgent

  • navigator.oscpu

  • navigator.appName

  • navigator.appCodeName

  • navigator.platform

Inspection Details

Available in:

AppCode 2023.3, CLion 2023.3, GoLand 2023.3, IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, JetBrains Rider 2023.1, PhpStorm 2023.3, PyCharm 2023.3, Qodana for .NET 2023.1, Qodana for JS 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3, Qodana for PHP 2023.3, Qodana for Ruby 2023.3, RubyMine 2023.3, WebStorm 2023.3

Plugin:

JavaScript and TypeScript, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023