Detecting IE using jQuery

Question

$(window).load(function () {
   if($.browser.msie && $.browser.version=="6.0") {
     // do stuff
   }
});

Just realized that $.browser has been depreciated in 1.3. What is the new method for detecting IE, specially IE6.

Answer 1

As reported in jQuery documentation:

• $.support.boxmodel is false in IE 6, and 7.
• $.support.cssFloat is false in IE.

Answer 2

hot from the documentation: We recommend against using this property, please try to use feature detection instead (see jQuery.support).