Is there a solid way to detect whether or not a user is using a mobile device in jQuery? Something similar to the CSS @media attribute? I would like to run a different script if the browser is on a handheld device.  The jQuery $.browser function is...

I have 5 addons/extensions for FF, Chrome, IE, Opera, and Safari.   How can I recognize the user browser and redirect (once an install button has been clicked) to download the corresponding addon?...

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Is there a way to detect if the current user is using an iPad using jQuery/JavaScript?...

Can I differentiate if client's browser is IE7 or e.g. IE9 in IE7 compatibility mode? I'm trying to figure out if I can do a JS check on my site which would recognize two different things and do different stuff depending on the result   tha...

Hello I want to detect the Browser , IE 8 or more will be appropriate for me. For this i used following code but it fails for IE 11 . For other its detecting properly.  function getInternetExplorerVersion() {     var rv = -1; // Return value assumes...

In one of my Web Development classes we where asked to create a script that detects NE4,NE6+,IE4,IE6+ Browsers that display a compatable CSS script for each browser.  he gave us an article to read about these and the article mentioned  this site  one...

I know you should do feature detection where possible, but can you detect in Javascript if the browser is the Microsoft Edge browser?  I maintain an old product and I want to display a warning that some features could be broken without having to inve...

Different web browsers handle the window.close() function differently. IE prompts the user for confirmation, while Firefox and Safari just fail to honor it unless the window was originally opened with Javascript and display a message saying as much i...

I was talking with a friend about users who do not have javascript enabled in their browser and what could be done to show them a "no-javascript" version of your website.  Is it possible and how can it be done?  Thoughts?...