JavaScript - get detailed information about the browser

Posted by iconiK on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by iconiK
Published on 2010-04-08T10:15:03Z Indexed on 2010/04/18 8:13 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 822

Filed under:
|

Basically I'm looking for something to give me easy access to information like useragentstring.com, but in JS, without me parsing the user agent and looking for each possible bit of text. The object could be something like this:

browser      = UserAgent.Browser;                // Chrome
browserVer   = UserAgent.BrowserVersion;         // 5.0.342.9
os           = UserAgent.OperatingSystem;        // Windows NT
osVer        = UserAgent.OperatingSystemVersion; // 6.1
layoutEng    = UserAgent.LayoutEngine;           // WebKit
layoutEngVer = UserAgent.LayoutEngineVersion;    // 533.2

Does something similar to that exist or do I have to write one myself? Writing yet another user agent parser doesn't seem that easy with all those impersonations going back to the dark ages of the web.

Specifically I'm looking for something that doesn't just split the user agent into parts and give them to me, because that's as useless as the user agent itself; instead it should parse the user agent and recognize the engine, browser, OS, etc. and return the concrete parts only, as in the example.

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about JavaScript

Related posts about user-agent