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JavaScript: Detect Browser
// browser detect
var BrowserDetect = {
init: function(userAgent, appVersion) {
this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser";
this.version = this.searchVersion(userAgent) || this.searchVersion(appVersion) || "an unknown version";
this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
},
searchString: function(data) {
for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
var dataString = data[i].string;
var dataProp = data[i].prop;
this.versionSearchString = data[i].versionSearch || data[i].identity;
if (dataString) {
if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1) {
return data[i].identity;
}
} else if (dataProp) {
return data[i].identity;
}
}
},
searchVersion: function(dataString) {
var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString);
if (index == -1) return;
return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index + this.versionSearchString.length + 1));
},
dataBrowser: [{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Chrome",
identity: "Chrome"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "OmniWeb",
versionSearch: "OmniWeb/",
identity: "OmniWeb"
}, {
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "Apple",
identity: "Safari",
versionSearch: "Version"
}, {
prop: window.opera,
identity: "Opera",
versionSearch: "Version"
}, {
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "iCab",
identity: "iCab"
}, {
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "KDE",
identity: "Konqueror"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Firefox",
identity: "Firefox"
}, {
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "Camino",
identity: "Camino"
}, { // for newer Netscapes (6+)
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Netscape",
identity: "Netscape"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "MSIE",
identity: "Explorer",
versionSearch: "MSIE"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Trident",
identity: "Explorer",
versionSearch: "rv"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Edge",
identity: "Edge"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Gecko",
identity: "Mozilla",
versionSearch: "rv"
}, { // for older Netscapes (4-)
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Mozilla",
identity: "Netscape",
versionSearch: "Mozilla"
}],
dataOS: [{
string: navigator.platform,
subString: "Win",
identity: "Windows"
}, {
string: navigator.platform,
subString: "Mac",
identity: "Mac"
}, {
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "iPhone",
identity: "iPhone/iPod"
}, {
string: navigator.platform,
subString: "Linux",
identity: "Linux"
}]
};
BrowserDetect.init(navigator.userAgent, navigator.appVersion);
///// mobile
var isMobile = {
Android: function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i);
},
BlackBerry: function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/BlackBerry/i);
},
iOS: function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone|iPad|iPod/i);
},
Opera: function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/Opera Mini/i);
},
Windows: function() {
return navigator.userAgent.match(/IEMobile/i);
},
any: function() {
return (isMobile.Android() || isMobile.BlackBerry() || isMobile.iOS() || isMobile.Opera() || isMobile.Windows());
}
};
if (BrowserDetect.browser === 'Safari' && BrowserDetect.version < 6) {
//Javascript goes here
}
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korokd commented Aug 29, 2019

From the JSBin console:
image
(Up to bottom: BrowserDetect.OS, BrowserDetect.browser, BrowserDetect.version, this.versionSearchString)

When actually I'm using Google Chrome | 76.0.3809.132 on Windows (this one was correct though)

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cyrfer commented Oct 31, 2019

This really helps! Thank you!

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