ua-parser-js-helpers

Helpful helper methods for the excellent ua-parser-js library. Modelled after the browser gem.

Requirements

You have to include the ua-parser-js library as it does all the heavy lifting.

<script src="ua-parser.js"></script>
<script src="browser-detector.js"></script>
<script>
  // do stuff
</script>

Usage

By default a new BrowserDetector instance will use the user agent returned by window.navigator.userAgent.

var detector = new BrowserDetector();

detector.isChrome(); // true

If you need to, you can pass a custom user agent an an option

var someUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.116 Safari/537.36";

var detector = new BrowserDetector({
  ua: someUserAgent
});

detector.isChrome(); // true

Methods

All methods return a boolean.

var detector = new BrowserDetector();

detector.isChrome();
detector.isFirefox();
detector.isSafari();
detector.isIE();
detector.isIE7();
detector.isIE8();
detector.isIE9();
detector.isIE10();
detector.isIE11();

detector.isWindows();
detector.isWindows7();
detector.isWindows8();
detector.isMac();
detector.isChromeOS();

detector.isMobile();
detector.isTablet();
detector.isiPad();
detector.isiPhone();
detector.isiOS();
detector.isAndroid();