From 4b990e46499ed436e738943cbf527252ca9bace6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rjy7 <rjy7@440791e1-c2bf-4c1e-ad7c-caf3f8b0ebe8>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:44:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Merge r5382 from
 http://svn.mannlib.cornell.edu/svn/vitro/branches/nihvivo-rel-1.1-maint

---
 webapp/web/js/browserUtils.js | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 webapp/web/js/browserUtils.js

diff --git a/webapp/web/js/browserUtils.js b/webapp/web/js/browserUtils.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55be9ba7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/web/js/browserUtils.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+var vitro;
+// vitro == null: true
+// vitro === null: false (only true if undefined)
+// typeof vitro == 'undefined': true
+if (!vitro) { 
+    vitro = {};
+}
+
+vitro.browserUtils = {
+    
+    isIELessThan8: function() {
+        var version;
+        if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") == -1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        else {
+            version = parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.split("MSIE")[1]);
+            return version < 8;
+        }    
+    }
+};
+