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Browser Detect (from quirksmode)

Published in: JavaScript 

URL: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html

A useful but often overrated JavaScript function is the browser detect. Sometimes you want to give specific instructions or load a new page in case the viewer uses, for instance, Safari.

Copy this script into your JavaScript files. It works immediately, and you can query three properties of the BrowserDetect object:

* Browser name: BrowserDetect.browser
* Browser version: BrowserDetect.version
* OS name: BrowserDetect.OS
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  1. var BrowserDetect = {
  2. 	init: function () {
  3. 		this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser";
  4. 		this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent)
  5. 			|| this.searchVersion(navigator.appVersion)
  6. 			|| "an unknown version";
  7. 		this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
  8. 	},
  9. 	searchString: function (data) {
  10. 		for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++)	{
  11. 			var dataString = data[i].string;
  12. 			var dataProp = data[i].prop;
  13. 			this.versionSearchString = data[i].versionSearch || data[i].identity;
  14. 			if (dataString) {
  15. 				if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1)
  16. 					return data[i].identity;
  17. 			}
  18. 			else if (dataProp)
  19. 				return data[i].identity;
  20. 		}
  21. 	},
  22. 	searchVersion: function (dataString) {
  23. 		var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString);
  24. 		if (index == -1) return;
  25. 		return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index+this.versionSearchString.length+1));
  26. 	},
  27. 	dataBrowser: [
  28. 		{ 	string: navigator.userAgent,
  29. 			subString: "OmniWeb",
  30. 			versionSearch: "OmniWeb/",
  31. 			identity: "OmniWeb"
  32. 		},
  33. 		{
  34. 			string: navigator.vendor,
  35. 			subString: "Apple",
  36. 			identity: "Safari"
  37. 		},
  38. 		{
  39. 			prop: window.opera,
  40. 			identity: "Opera"
  41. 		},
  42. 		{
  43. 			string: navigator.vendor,
  44. 			subString: "iCab",
  45. 			identity: "iCab"
  46. 		},
  47. 		{
  48. 			string: navigator.vendor,
  49. 			subString: "KDE",
  50. 			identity: "Konqueror"
  51. 		},
  52. 		{
  53. 			string: navigator.userAgent,
  54. 			subString: "Firefox",
  55. 			identity: "Firefox"
  56. 		},
  57. 		{
  58. 			string: navigator.vendor,
  59. 			subString: "Camino",
  60. 			identity: "Camino"
  61. 		},
  62. 		{		// for newer Netscapes (6+)
  63. 			string: navigator.userAgent,
  64. 			subString: "Netscape",
  65. 			identity: "Netscape"
  66. 		},
  67. 		{
  68. 			string: navigator.userAgent,
  69. 			subString: "MSIE",
  70. 			identity: "Explorer",
  71. 			versionSearch: "MSIE"
  72. 		},
  73. 		{
  74. 			string: navigator.userAgent,
  75. 			subString: "Gecko",
  76. 			identity: "Mozilla",
  77. 			versionSearch: "rv"
  78. 		},
  79. 		{ 		// for older Netscapes (4-)
  80. 			string: navigator.userAgent,
  81. 			subString: "Mozilla",
  82. 			identity: "Netscape",
  83. 			versionSearch: "Mozilla"
  84. 		}
  85. 	],
  86. 	dataOS : [
  87. 		{
  88. 			string: navigator.platform,
  89. 			subString: "Win",
  90. 			identity: "Windows"
  91. 		},
  92. 		{
  93. 			string: navigator.platform,
  94. 			subString: "Mac",
  95. 			identity: "Mac"
  96. 		},
  97. 		{
  98. 			string: navigator.platform,
  99. 			subString: "Linux",
  100. 			identity: "Linux"
  101. 		}
  102. 	]
  103.  
  104. };
  105. BrowserDetect.init();

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