🏠 New in Low Baseline Support: User agent sniffing

September 20, 2016

caniuse · mdn · spec

The navigator.userAgent property and several others loosely identify a browser. Selectively showing content based on the user agent string, also known as user agent sniffing, is unreliable. Consider using feature detection or user agent client hints instead.

Source features

• api.Navigator.appCodeName [mdn]
• api.Navigator.appName [mdn]
• api.Navigator.appVersion [mdn]
• api.Navigator.javaEnabled [mdn]
• api.Navigator.platform [mdn]
• api.Navigator.plugins [mdn]
• api.Navigator.product [mdn]
• api.Navigator.productSub [mdn]
• api.Navigator.userAgent [mdn]
• api.Navigator.vendor [mdn]
• api.WorkerNavigator.appName [mdn]
• api.WorkerNavigator.appVersion [mdn]
• api.WorkerNavigator.platform [mdn]
• api.WorkerNavigator.userAgent [mdn]
• api.WorkerNavigator.appCodeName [mdn]
• api.WorkerNavigator.product [mdn]