Bowser
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A Browser detector. Because sometimes, there is no other way, and not even good modern browsers always provide good feature detection mechanisms.
So... it works like this:
``` js
if (bowser.msie & & bowser.version < = 6) {
alert('Hello China');
}
```
Detected Browsers
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* msie
* safari[webkit]
* chrome[webkit]
* firefox[gecko]
* opera
Notes
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Safari, Chrome, and Firefox will report that they have webkit|gecko engines
``` js
if (bowser.webkit) {
// do stuff with safari & chrome
}
```
Ender installation
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If you don't already have [Ender ](http://ender.no.de ) (an npm package) install it now (and don't look back)
$ npm install ender
then add bowser to your module collection
$ ender add bowser
use it like this:
``` js
if ($.browser.chrome) {
alert('Hello Silicon Valley');
}
```
Graded Browser Support
---------
One useful feature of Bowser is that aside from checking one browser from another -- it will keep up to date with [Yahoo's Graded Browser Support ](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/ ) chart, giving you access to each grade on the bowser object
``` js
if (bowser.a) {
// support full feature set
}
else if (bowser.c) {
// serve degraded version
}
else {
// unsupported (bowser.x)
}
```
Building
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If you'd like to contribute a change to bowser, modify the files in src/, then run the following (you'll need node + npm installed):
$ npm install
$ make
Testing
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We started a list `src/useragents.js` with example user agents and their expected bowser object.
Whenever you add support for new browsers or notice a bug / mismatch, please update the list and
check if all tests are still passing.
To run the test call `$ make test`