Patrick, As William Chan (陈智昌) [2013-09-13T17:22] said: > Changing the UA string breaks web compat, and when the end user's favorite site foo.com fails to render in browser X, the end user switches to browser Y. I guess I could write yet another article to explain the 1001 ways a Web site breaks because of UA strings. :) but in the mean time background reading https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/user-agent-detection-history-and-checklist/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Mobile https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Mobile/WipeOutUAOverides http://my.opera.com/community/openweb/ http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/ You can help fix some of these, it's a required experience for understanding the insanity going on around ;) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Tech%20Evangelism That's my job for the last 3 years. First at Opera, then now at Mozilla. :) -- Karl Dubost http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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