Missing $.browser in 1.9

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$.browser is mainly been used when for special tricks and tuning code for particular browser.

In 1.9 using feature detection doesn't make sense, because of logic - now we have to make assumption based on some special feature existence.

Before 1.9:

if (isIE) then

doFixWidth()

1.9:

if (hasSpecialFeature) then

doFixWidth()

This code will be broken as soon as special feature become not special.

[Rick Waldron]

​http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/

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Migration plugin is not solution.

Feature detection is just workaround which breaks logic and doesn't make sense, when 'feature' I try to exploit is not listed.

[dmethvin]

Executing code for all browsers of a certain type with $.browser.msie or $.browser.safari doesn't make sense. There isn't a lot of commonality between IE6 and IE10, or Safari 4 and Safari 6. That's why browser detection sucks. Feel free to interpret whatever you want of navigator.userAgent since that's all $.browser is doing.