Detecting browsers that are not supported by jQuery (2)

Question

Forgive me if there is an obvious answer to this question, but I haven\'t been able to find it. I am considering switching over to jQuery 2 and, although I\'m not concerned abou

Answer 1

A way to get the benefits of jQuery 2.0 while supporting IE 6, 7 and 8, is to use conditional comments:

• The first conditional comment ensures that jQuery 1.x is loaded for IE < 9.
• The latest version of jQuery (2.0.3) is used in IE 9 and browsers where conditional comments are not recognized (IE 10 dropped support for conditional comments).
• When jQuery fails to load from the CDN, a fallback (jquery.js, hosted on your server) is loaded.