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Detecting IE in 12 bytes

A twelve-byte Internet Explorer detection, improving on a 32-byte version by Andrea Giammarchi. The expression IE='\v'=='v' relies on IE not treating \v as a vertical tab escape, so the escaped character compares equal to the bare letter only in that engine.

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Gareth Heyes
Published by
thespanner.co.uk
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