*minor*: $.support vs $.browser

[austegard]

As $.support really doesn't give you any clues as to whether or not a browser will support tracking hash history, or what lengths you need to go to to work around the lacking support for mocking the history, I can 100% see why you are using $.browser and not $.support.

That said, $.browser IS deprecated. Any plans of moving off it?

[bartaz]

As the docs http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/ say:
"[...] jQuery.browser will not be removed from future versions of jQuery"

So it's not really deprecated, it's just not recommended to use it. But as there is no other way to detect hash history support it's quite reliable way for this. Especially that it's only needed for old browsers and there is no risk that any new browser will not work.

The idea behind $.support is great, but there are some cases where it's impossible (or very very hard) to use it. It's not worth to create some big and heavy support test (including iframes, additional requests and stuff) just to check if browser is IE<8.

[asual]

This is definitely something I'm looking into but I don't see it happening in the foreseeable future. There are too many browser and version specific cases that $.support simply doesn't handle especially when it comes to detecting Opera or older versions of Safari.

I'll leave the issue open because there is space for improvement. Things will get easier if one day we drop the support for some old browser versions.

[calumbrodie]

The use of $.browser is causing Chrome to be flagged as unsupported when using a version of jQuery earlier than 1.4 (specifically in my case - 1.3) . Chrome is detected as 'safari' and your plugin is expecting the $.browser method to return the newer 'webkit' syntax. Suggest you add support for this, because other than this the plugin works great with jQuery 1.3.

Line 410

(_mozilla && _version >= 1) ||
(_msie && _version >= 6) ||
(_opera && _version >= 9.5) ||
(_webkit && _version >= 312);

Change to

(_mozilla && _version >= 1) ||
(_msie && _version >= 6) ||
(_opera && _version >= 9.5) ||
(( _safari || _webkit) && _version >= 312);

[fooger]

Hello. ASUAL, I recently came up with how to use jquery you can determine, exactly what version of IE is used. I suggest you use it (because it is more reliable than the User Agent):

var div = $('<!--[if IE 6]><script type="text/javascript">var ie_true_width_height_ie6 = true;</'+'script><![endif]-->\
<!--[if IE 7]><script type="text/javascript">var ie_true_width_height_ie7 = true;</'+'script><![endif]-->\
<!--[if IE 8]><script type="text/javascript">var ie_true_width_height_ie8 = true;</'+'script><![endif]-->\
<!--[if IE 9]><script type="text/javascript">var ie_true_width_height_ie9 = true;</'+'script><![endif]-->').appendTo('body');
$(div).remove();

I'll be glad if you use it
Sorry for my English, i know his bad, becouse i live in non-English language country)))
Thanks