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

[Rob Whitener]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter-Paul Koch [mailto:gassinaumasis at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:56 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Safari details + UA string (was Apple releases
new browser for OS



>>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...

Usual reason: people use browser detects to spot standards compliant
browsers and Safari wishes to end up on the correct side of those detects.
As long as people continue to use browser detects browsers will continue to
have odd browser strings.

Don't use a browser detect. Ever. For whatever reason.

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