Browser detection in JQuery 2.0 and higher

Question

Browser detection is a code smell. However, there are times you want to detect/identify the browser a user is using as opposed to feature/support-detection. How do you do browser detection in JQuery 2.0 and higher?

Answer 1

You don't do it with jQuery, because it's not a feature of the library anymore.

So you do it with another library, or yourself. All the details about browser detection and the javascript code are at Quirksmode.

But just don't do it, really. What's your use case?