[email protected] wrote: > I wonder about the reason given: "To avoid compatibility issues." > That was - if I recall correctly - the reason for having the string > to start with: So that servers can format pages to suit the capabilities > of the browser and version used.
That was how web applications were written 15-20 years ago. 10 years ago, the browser capabilities are queried by the JavaScript toolkit [1][2]. Nowadays, they prefer feature detection in JavaScript. Bruno [1] https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.7/quickstart/browser-sniffing.html [2] https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.browser/
