$.browser doesn't report webkit in Chrome anymore

[bundyo@…]

$.browser, when ran in Chrome and jQuery 1.7.1 reports

safari: true version: "534.11" webkit: true

In 1.8.0 it reports

chrome: true version: "21.0.1180.60"

which is correct, but it should at least include webkit: true, as it is still a WebKit-based browser. I know $.browser is deprecated, but still.

[timmywil]

I highly doubt anyone on the core team would care enough about $.browser to make sure it works beyond the current tests.

Besides, $.browser.webkit is becoming less and less useful with Chrome and Safari continually diverging their webkit codepaths.

[Rick Waldron]

Also, in 1.9 jQuery.browser will no longer be in the core library

[dmethvin]

This was introduced in 1.8 as a result of the new Chrome detection. So it just goes to show, no good deed goes unpunished.

I'm inclined to leave $.browser as-is since it's been deprecated since 1.3 and will be gone in 1.9. If you need to know the actual browser/version and expect to need that in the future, it would be better for you to parse navigator.userAgent directly.

[bundyo@…]

The problem is that it introduces a breaking change where it shouldn't - the rendering engine in Chrome is still Webkit regardless of the javascript engine and the 3D rendering. However, it doesn't really affect me, so it is up to jQuery to decide how to handle it, if at all.

[anonymous]

Simple, add this to your project

jQuery.browser.webkit = !!jQuery.browser.chrome;

[bundyo@…]

More like

jQuery.browser.webkit = !!jQuery.browser.chrome || jQuery.browser.webkit;

If you want it to work in Safari/other WebKit browsers too.