[thelist] Safari details + UA string (was Apple releases new browser for OS X - "Safari")

[Lachlan Cannon]

Adrian Simmons wrote:
> Safari is based on the same library that Konqueror uses, and yes, it
> renders things just like Konqueror - only a hell of  a lot faster.
>
> It's a nice 3mb download, which should see it being downloaded somewhat
> more than other standards compliant browsers for the mac.
>
> And before anyone asks it uses the following UA string:
>
> "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/48 (like
> Gecko) Safari/48"

Ugh. Why the hell did they put Gecko in the UA string? So now instead of
a reliable way to pick moz based browsers out further filtering is
needed. Thanks Apple...
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Lach
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