Comments on: Determining Silverlight Version Installed

By: silverlight version

silverlight version — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:31:03 +0000

ah true, i glanced over and didnt notice this was a binary search… so yes, this is more efficient! ;)

By: Gergely Orosz

Gergely Orosz — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:30:24 +0000

Chris: you’re right, the JavaScript could be a bit more up to standards… but most of the recommendations on jslint.com were to use brackets for one line ifs and don’t use document.writeln :) For now I’ll just leave it as is but thanks for the feedback!

Silverlight version: the source on silverilghtversion.com is shorter but actually is less effcient as it doesn’t use binary search to find the version number like this script does. Though the author was apparently aware of this I guess, hence the comment in the source:
“//the following would be faster with a binary search. Im kinda sleepy though.”
:)

By: silverlight version

silverlight version — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:41:12 +0000

Take a look at the source on silverlightversion.com, it accomplishes the same thing but the jscript is a bit more efficient.

By: Chris Price

Chris Price — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:58:50 +0000

Hi Gergely,

You might find it useful to run your JavaScript through a tool called JSLint http://www.jslint.com/. It can be a bit picky but it’s an easy way of cleaning up the code.

Chris

p.s. It also looks like you’ve run into some encoding issues in the inline copy of the script.

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» Detecting Silverlight Version Installed - Greg Does IT — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:41:38 +0000

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