Bowser ------ 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 ----- * android * blackberry * chrome[webkit] * firefox[gecko] * ipad * iphone * ipod * msie * opera * phantomjs * safari[webkit] * seamonkey * touchpad * webos * windows phone Notes ---- Safari, Chrome, and Firefox will report that they have webkit|gecko engines ``` js if (bowser.webkit) { // do stuff with safari & chrome } ``` Ender installation ----- 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 -------- 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 ------- 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`