Detect Safari using jQuery

Question

Though both are Webkit based browsers, Safari urlencodes quotation marks in the URL while Chrome does not.

Therefore I need to distinguish between these two in JS.

Answer 1

Apparently the only reliable and accepted solution would be to do feature detection like this:

browser_treats_urls_like_safari_does = false;
var last_location_hash = location.hash;
location.hash = '"blah"';
if (location.hash == '#%22blah%22')
    browser_treats_urls_like_safari_does = true;
location.hash = last_location_hash;