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Lo! The History of Browser User-Agent String (webaim.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

And lo, the committees did ask, "Shall we moveth onto feature flags with HTML5?" But browsers did speaketh in response, "Nah fam, we gud."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And now, user agent strings in Chrome are frozen, with other browsers to follow. This means they're not going to change much - it still has the major version of the browser, but all the other parts (like OS version) won't be changing. All Windows systems will be "Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64" regardless of the actual Windows version; all Mac systems will be "Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7"; all Linux systems will be "X11; Linux x86_64" and all Android systems will be "Android 10". https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/

AFAIK the aim is to totally remove user-agent one day, and instead migrate to the newer Client Hints API.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That was a fun ride!