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jQuery browser and OS detection plugin

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Browser/OS detection with jQuery

As I wrote in my recent post I simply use the PPK BrowserDetect object to find out the browser/OS of the client. Actually I’m pretty sure there’s a similar jQuery plugin based again on that code from Quirksmode.org, but however I decided to write a simple plugin for jQuery wrapping it into a closure and exporting it in the “$” object.

Demo

You can see full working example here.

Installation

You must add a link to jquery.client.js after the jquery.js file in your code:

<html>
<body>
 <div id="os"></div>
 <div id="browser"></div>
 <script src="./jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
 <script src="./jquery.client.js"></script>
 <script>
  $('#os').html("<b>" + $.client.os + "</b>");
  $('#browser').html("<b>" + $.client.browser + "</b>");
 </script>
</body>
</html>

Now there’s a $.client object containing two strings with OS and browser, they can be referenced with:

$.client.browser
$.client.os

You can append this code after you jquery.js installation. And if you’re on Firefox you simply can test with the console object:

Download

You can download the sample code from here.