On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Biju wrote:
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> Nearly all browsers have word "Mozilla" in userAgent string, hence no
> benefit in detecting that at server.
> So why do we need "Mozilla" in userAgent string?
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Oliver Hunt wrote:
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> Because there are a huge number of sites out there that c
Because there are a huge number of sites out there that check for the existence
of a feature by doing 'navigator.userAgent.indexOf("mozilla") != -1' or similar
(or they decide that the absence of the mozilla term means that you're IE6), so
not including the word "mozilla" in the user agent would
Nearly all browsers have word "Mozilla" in userAgent string, hence no
benefit in detecting that at server.
So why do we need "Mozilla" in userAgent string?
Cheers
Biju
