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JavaScript

Posted by Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,910 Points

What's the best way to detect IE?

Some people are saying use Modernizr, some say use 'conditional comments', and all kinds of other functions.

I need to target IE with specific jQuery as our project is very HTML5 video heavy and IE and Windows 8 has a real conflict at the moment with Flash - and yes we tried setting the mime types in htaccess - this issue is with some installations of Windows 8 and 8.1.

Thank you .

Kind regards, Michael

Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,910 Points

At the moment we're using this and it appears to be working

var isIE = false;
    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE') !== -1 || navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Trident/') > 0) {
        isIE = true;   
    }

1 Answer

Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton
8,643 Points

Microsoft would tell you to detect browser features and not browser versions, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh273397(v=vs.85).aspx. They almost appear to mangle their User-Agent string making detection a pain. The script your using is probably fine for this case I'd imagine - if it's working stick with it I'd say.

Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas
10,910 Points

Ah ok, thanks Stephen