How do you detect support for VML or SVG in a browser

Question

I\'m writing a bit of javascript and need to choose between SVG or VML (or both, or something else, it\'s a weird world). Whilst I know that for now that only IE supports VM

Answer 1

You may want to check out http://www.modernizr.com/docs/#features-misc as it contains support for actual detection of SVG capability as opposed to user-agent sniffing which can be easily corrupted.