leverage a standard UA parsing library

[paulirish]

the flaws of UA sniffing are due to 1) making assumptions about future UAs and 2) reinventing UA parsing and adding flaws.

for 2 you can at least leverage previous and robust work..

https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser uses ua-parser which comes from code Google uses to UA parse. plus it was ported by your colleague! :)

alternatively you could use https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js/ which is the only other reliable parser in JS, IMO

[jamesgpearce]

Sounds good... though the project is 18 months old. So is this a pull request? :-)

[paulirish]

it's certainly an opportunity for someone else. :)

/me fixes issue title