Detecting IE in 12 bytes
By Gareth Heyes (@hackvertor)
Published 16 years 11 months ago • Last updated July 31, 2025 • ⏱️ < 1 min read
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:-
IE='\v'=='v'
Pretty cool eh?