Detecting IE in 12 bytes

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Gareth Heyes

@hackvertor

Published: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:04:53 GMT

Updated: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:38:12 GMT

Andrea Giammarchi had a interesting article which stated you can detect IE in 32 bytes of code. I wondered if this could be improved, after a few failed attempts I found this to be the smallest and fastest way:-

<pre lang="javascript"> IE='\v'=='v' </pre>

Pretty cool eh?

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