Browser detection in JQuery 2.0 and higher

Question

Browser detection is a code smell. However, there are times you want to detect/identify the browser a user is using as opposed to feature/support-detection. How do you do browser detection in JQuery 2.0 and higher?

Answer 1

You don't do it with jQuery, because it's not a feature of the library anymore.

So you do it with another library, or yourself. All the details about browser detection and the javascript code are at Quirksmode .

But just don't do it, really. What's your use case?