Re:Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft ...
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday October 05, 2017 @09:52AM
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Edge's user agent I believe is specifically chosen to look like Chrome to most websites. I believe they have said they had a lot of issues modernizing IE because people's "detect IE" hacks would assume IE still needed those hacks, and it would in fact end up breaking the website when IE improved.
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Re:Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft ...
by tapoxi on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:02AM
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Edge's user agent is almost a parody of how bad UA strings have become. Its basically claiming to be every major browser at once.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.
Re:Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft ...
by exikyut on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:10AM
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Except Internet Explorer.
http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php?nam...
IE version 6: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.1)
IE version 10: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)
IE versi--wait, what (?!): Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows 3.1)
That last one made me wonder if someone was trolling an auto-collection system or if a zero somehow got added by a Network™. Offtopic but had to add it.