- From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:35:40 -0700
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > On 20/09/2010, at 7:24 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: >>> Likewise, implementations are encouraged not to use the product tokens of other implementations in order to declare compatibility with them, as this circumvents the purpose of the field. >> >> Although noble, many implementations will ignore this advice. I can >> tell you that there are several folks in the Chromium project that are >> adamant about fixing the User-Agent mess, but they're crushed by the >> compatibility requirements. In particular, including the token >> "Safari" in Chrome's User-Agent string is massively important to >> making the browser actually work in the real world. > > Yes, I think that's probably the most tenuous part of the proposal -- and one reason why it's just "encouraged." > > OTOH, if things are really that dire, maybe we should standardise the value to start with "Mozilla/4.0" and just move on ;) Some of us still hold onto the dream that this can be fixed at some point. :) Adam
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