[removed] The best way to detect IE

Question

Reading this article I\'ve found a following piece of code:

if (\'v\'==\'\\v\') { // Note: IE listens on document
    document.attachEvent(\'onstorage\', onS         


        

Answer 1

You can check for Trident, IE's engine, by the following:

var trident = !!window.ActiveXObject;

As stated on MSDN it is only supported in IE.

Edit:

Note: above code returns false in IE-11, If you want to detect also IE-11 use this:

var isIE = "ActiveXObject" in window; //window.ActiveXObject !== undefined;