On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 21:40:57 +0100, John Williams wrote: > > I've been doing some stuff recently with browser ID strings, and find that > it is quite complicated! > > There is stuff called Mozilla compatibility, platform, platform details, > specific enhancements etcetera! All very difficult to untangle! > > But NetSurf (RISC OS) resolutely reports itself as: > > NetSurf/3.7 (RISC OS) > > which isn't terribly helpful/compatible with the likes of, for instance: > > Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; SAMSUNG SM-T550 Build/MMB29M) > AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/4.0 > Chrome/44.0.2403.133 Safari/537.36 > > Observations, please!
NetSurf is not telling lies. In addition, browser name sniffing is considered harmful because of how many extensions exist which allow you to change it. Basically just "no". D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
