This is a pure-frontend port of Niels Leenheer's WhichBrowser library.
It's slightly less powerful than the original and might not be maintained as frequently ("maintained" as in "copied from WhichBrowser") as the original, but it works without a php-setup.
Dependencies
Should work out of the box if you just download this file.
If you want to change it and use the included minify.js script you need node-js with the node-minify library installed.
It just works by typing node minify.js on the cli.
Usage
<script type="text/javascript" src="whichbrowser-js-min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
(new WhichBrowser()).onReady(function (info) {
doStuffWith(info);
});
</script>
info is a JSON-structure looking roughly like this
{
"browser": {
"stock": <bool>,
"hidden": <bool>,
"channel": <string>,
"mode": <string>,
"name": <string>,
"version": {
"value": <string>,
"alias": <string>,
"details": <number>
}
},
"device": {
"type": <string>,
"identified": <number>
},
"engine": {
"name": <string>,
"version": {
"value": <string>,
"alias": <string>,
"details": <number>
}
},
"os": {
"name": <string>
},
"camouflage": <bool>,
"features": <object>
}
For more information about the reliability of this information and how exactly to interpret it, see (and ideally use in the first place) the original library.
Copyright (c) 2013 Niels Leenheer
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