Many times we need to write certain parts of our script according to the browser, i.e. we need to detect the browser. Here's a snippet of how to do it.
Code: JavaScript
var userAgent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var is_opera = (userAgent.indexOf('opera') != -1);
var is_saf = ((userAgent.indexOf('applewebkit') != -1) || (navigator.vendor == "Apple Computer, Inc."));
var is_webtv = (userAgent.indexOf('webtv') != -1);
var is_ie = ((userAgent.indexOf('msie') != -1) && (!is_opera) && (!is_saf) && (!is_webtv));
var is_ie4 = ((is_ie) && (userAgent.indexOf("msie 4.") != -1));
var is_moz = ((navigator.product == 'Gecko') && (!is_saf));
var is_kon = (userAgent.indexOf('konqueror') != -1);
var is_ns = ((userAgent.indexOf('compatible') == -1) && (userAgent.indexOf('mozilla') != -1) && (!is_opera) && (!is_webtv) && (!is_saf));
var is_ns4 = ((is_ns) && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) == 4));
