On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM, David Levin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The blog post begs the question made me wonder. > > Why was "Macintosh; " kept when it is redundant with "Intel Mac OS X > 10_6_7"? > The reasoning seem analogous to what was given for why "Windows;" was > removed. > Unlike "Windows", the string "Macintosh" does not otherwise occur in the OS version. So sites looking for the token "Macintosh" to detect Macs will all break. Also, the main reason for both Gecko and WebKit to remove "Windows" was to match IE, which isn't a factor in the Mac UA string. PK
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