Comments on: Detect Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and other popular browsers with Mootools

By: Jamland

Jamland — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:40:31 +0000

Thanx!

By: Si

Si — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:43:42 +0000

Good tip, it doesn’t mention that in the docs.

You could also use:

if (Browser.Engine.name==’trident’ && Browser.Engine.version==4) {
alert(’This is IE6′)
}

but essentially ‘Browser.Engine.trident4′ does that same thing. Seems strange to me that it’s not in the docs!

As far as i know, the feature detection it sniffs out is the window.XMLHttpRequest. Only available in IE7 and above. So to target IE6 specifically i would still use the useragent string method.

also the overkill of globals is just to show how you could create one per browser. In reality you would probably only ever need one… IE6. You gotta love it!

By: David McGeorge

David McGeorge — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:17:58 +0000

Good post. I used to like how it was done in mootools 1.1

if(window.ie6) { alert(‘this is IE6′); }

It was clean and simple. In mootools 2 you can shorten the ie6 code above that little bit more by doing:

if(Browser.Engine.trident4){ alert(‘This is IE6′); }

I don’t like to make too many global variables and the Browser object does a good job at keeping code clean. A little anal retentive maybe?