Javascript/jQuery browser detection

Question

I'm making a webpage for a browser extension and I want the download button to automatically download the relevant file for the browser the user is on.

I've found that jQuery's $.browser feature is now deprecated, so is there an easy way of detecting the user's browser?

Answer 1

If you want information about the browser that your visitor uses, and use it for statistics or displaying information to the user, you can use the jQuery Browser Plugin.

you can also use - navigator.userAgent for detect user browser.

Answer 2

Try to detect the features instead using jQuery.support

EDIT:

Then you can do it simply using navigator.userAgent (though parsing needed)

Decrypting the User Agent String in JavaScript

Answer 3

It can still be a pain with all the browser specific dependencies in old jQuery plugins.

Try using jQBrowser: http://davecardwell.co.uk/javascript/jquery/plugins/jquery-browserdetect/

Almost same syntax:

$.browser.browser();
$.browser.version.number();