I need to know if MS Office 2013 installed on user machine to use specific way of opening office documents for editing from website.
Maybe there are some plugins/activex specific for Office 2013?
I tried to find out how Sharepoint does this task but it is too tricky:
this.IsProtocolHandlerEnabled = function(d) {
if (IsStrNullOrEmpty(d))
return false;
if (b[d] != null)
return b[d];
if (c)
return a;
...
'a' equals 'true' if office 2013 is available and 'false' otherwise but I can not find the place where variable 'a' was changed.
this method worked for me in chrome, you may have to dumb-down the iteration for older copies of IE:
var has2013=([].slice.call(navigator.plugins)
.filter(function(a){return a.name.match("Microsoft Office")})[0].name||"")
.match(2013)||false;
alert(has2013);