How to do browser detection with jQuery 1.3 with $.browser.msie deprecated?

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How should browser detection be done now that jQuery 1.3 has deprecated (and I'm assuming removed in a future version) $.browser.msie and similar?

I have used this a lot for determining which browser we are in for CSS fixes for pretty much every browser, such as:

$.browser.opera
$.browser.safari
$.browser.mozilla

... well I think that's all of them :)

The places where I use it, I'm not sure what browser issue is causing the problem, because a lot of times I'm just trying to fix a 1 px difference in a browser.

Edit: With the new jQuery functionality, there is no way to determine if you are in IE6 or IE7. How should one determine this now?

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