If Browser is Internet Explorer: run an alternative script instead

javascript browser-detection
dimmy4 picture dimmy4 · Dec 10, 2010 · Viewed 102.3k times · Source

I'm using an image carousel script that is quite heavy on the browser. It works great in Opera and Chrome, half decent in FF and absolutely breaks my balls in IE. So i'd like to give IE users an alternative of simple HTML without any action/JS.

The script doesn't use MT or jQuery and its like 380 lines of JS. Would it be possible to give IE users a plain HTML alternative?

var browserName=navigator.appName; if (browserName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer") { // what command can i use? }

Answer

Flack picture Flack · Dec 10, 2010

This article is quite explanatory: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537509%28v=vs.85%29.aspx.

If your JS is unobtrusive, you can just use:

<![if !IE]>
   <script src...
<![endif]>

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