Question

I have a script that I do not want to apply to IE7, the baseline browser for this site.

I have used HTML 5 boilerplate – with HTML class=”ie7″ therefore. I have tried

$('html:not(.ie7) .my-list li ')

but it still gets applied in IE7.

I know $browser is deprecated – is there a easier way to do what I am doing therefore?

The reason I am not using this script with ie7 is that I have a more essential script that applies a filter and this jquery animation will break that.

thanks for looking.

Answer 1

You could use conditional comments:

<!--[if !ie 7]>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        // script to run if *not* IE 7, but still IE
    </script>
<![end if]-->

<!--[if !IE]><!-->
    <script type="text/javascript">
        // script to run if *not* IE
    </script>
<!--<![endif]-->

References:

• Conditional comments, by Stu Nicholls of CSS Play.
• Conditional Comments, by PPK of quirksmode.org.
• Microsoft’s article about Conditional Comments, at MSDN.