- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:56:09 +1000
- To: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
- Cc: Patrick Pelletier <code@funwithsoftware.org>, "William Chan (陈智昌)" <willchan@chromium.org>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
This has been discussed ad nauseum in the communities it affects; folks really need to read the links below as well as the related browser bugs before discussing here. See also: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/232 Cheers, On 14/09/2013, at 7:43 AM, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote: > 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/ > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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