nothinking/jquery-browser-plugin

A jQuery plugin for browser detection

A jQuery plugin for browser detection. jQuery removed support for browser detection on 1.9.1 so it was abstracted into a jQuery plugin

Installation

Include script after the jQuery library:

<script src="/path/to/jquery.browser.js"></script>

Usage

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Supports all IE versions including IE11

$.browser.msie;

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of a Webkit browser (Safari, Chrome or soon Opera).

$.browser.webkit;

Returns true if the current useragent is some version of Firefox.

$.browser.mozilla;

Reading the browser verion

$.browser.version

Things not included in the original jQuery $.browser implementation

Detect iPad, iPhone and Android useragents

$.browser.ipad
$.browser.iphone
$.browser.android

Support for new useragent on IE11

Development

• Source hosted at GitHub
• Report issues, questions, feature requests on GitHub Issues

Attributions

• Examples and original implementation
• Original Gist used for the plugin