If you've been looking for a way to give cutting-edge content to visitors with the latest browsers, yet not leave users with older browsers out in the cold, detecting browser version, platform, and capabilities with JavaScript may be the answer. Browsers report all kinds of useful information. Find out how to use it to your advantage.

	Open this example file in your browser to see how the browser reports itself
	See the code behind the example file, complete with helpful comments
	Get a quick lesson in the JavaScript you need to know to do browser detection

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