Mobile Platform Detection on the web

I had a use case recently where I need to determine whether the client browser was a desktop/laptop/etc or a mobile device that supports tap events in JS. This will be useful to people who are dynamically binding different events to elements.

var tmpElem = document.createElement('div');
tmpElem.setAttribute('tap', 'return;');
clickEvent = (typeof tmpElem.tap == "undefined") ? 'click' : 'tap' ;

var tmpElem = document.createElement('div');

tmpElem.setAttribute('tap', 'return;');

clickEvent = (typeof tmpElem.tap == "undefined") ? 'click' : 'tap' ;

You would use it like this

$('.showDetails').bind(clickEvent,function(e){
      display(e, $(this).attr('info'));
      console.log( clickEvent + " " + $(this).attr('info'));
      //would look like "Click fooBar"
 });

$('.showDetails').bind(clickEvent,function(e){

display(e, $(this).attr('info'));

console.log( clickEvent + " " + $(this).attr('info'));

//would look like "Click fooBar"

});

Cameron Perry