How to detect IE7 and IE8 using jQuery.support

Question

How can I detect IE 7 and IE 8 using jQuery.support properties?

Is it possible to detect the browser versions using jQuery.support or just those blah blah blah brows

Answer 1

as explained, .support is for feature-detection. if you want to detect the browser, just use .browser.

 var ua = $.browser;
 if ( ua.msie && ua.version.slice(0,1) == "8" ) {
   alert('IE 8');
 } else if ( ua.msie && ua.version.slice(0,1) == "7" ) {
   alert('IE 7');
 } else {
   alert('something else');
 }