jquery - Find Browser type & version?

Question

Anyone knows of a good and reliable way to find out type & version of a browser installed on client either using JavaScript/jQuery?

Looks like jQuery has some built-in functions, but it is having problems in detecting Chrome. Any other reliable way of doing it?

Answer 1

If you want information about the browser that your visitor uses, and use it for statistics or displaying information to the user, you can use the jQuery Browser Plugin.

It gives you an object in javascript that contains all of the information about the browser being used.

Be sure to do feature detection instead of browser detection when you want to determine if a certain feature is available in a browser, apply bugfixes, etc.

No need to reinvent the wheel.