With all these api changes in jquery, what is the ‘latest’ best practice to detect browser name and version in jQuery?
Also, is jquery the recommended language to detect browsers or should I use server-side?
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With all these api changes in jquery, what is the ‘latest’ best practice to detect browser name and version in jQuery?
Also, is jquery the recommended language to detect browsers or should I use server-side?
You want to avoid browser detection & instead do feature detection.browser detection can be easily faked & therefore is unreliable. see a nice post by John Resig on this subject.
for more details, Google for “Browser detection versus feature detection”