web-apps/vendor/jquery.browser

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 and Opera 15+).

$.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 Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone useragents

	$.browser.ipad
	$.browser.iphone
	$.browser["windows phone"]
	$.browser.android
	$.browser.win
	$.browser.mac
	$.browser.linux

• Detect the browser's major version

	// User Agent for Chrome
	// Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1664.3 Safari/537.36
	
	$.browser.versionNumber // Returns 32 as a number

• Support for new useragent on IE11
• Support for webkit based Opera browsers
• Added testing using PhantomJS and different browser user agents

Testing

Testing for this plugin is done with Casperjs v1.1 to take advantage of multiple phantomjs browsers with different user agents.

For instructions on how to install Casperjs v1.1 go to http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/installation.html

Note: Testing requires Casperjs v1.1

Install the grunt-cli dependency by running npm install -g grunt-cli Run npm install to install all dependencies including grunt and all tasks

Once Casperjs and the grunt-cli npm package is installed you can execute all the tests by using:

grunt test

Development

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

Attributions

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