terriajs/lib/Core/isBrowserCompatible.js

Geospatial data visualization platform.

"use strict";

/**
 * Determines if this browser has any hope of running TerriaJS.  Specifically, this function checks for the presence
 * of the basic ECMAScript 5 function "Object.create".
 *
 * @return {Boolean} true if this web browser has a chance of running TerriaJS, or false if the browser is so old (pre-IE9)
 *                        that there is no chance of a good result.
 */
var isBrowserCompatible = function () {
  // IE9 doesn't have a console object until the debugging tools are opened.
  // Add a shim.
  if (typeof window.console === "undefined") {
    window.console = {
      log: function () {}
    };
  }

  return typeof Object.create !== "undefined";
};

module.exports = isBrowserCompatible;