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Re:Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need ... by wvenable on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:41PM (#15410568)
Look at that user-agent string:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel XL Build/OPP3.170518.006) 
    AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 EdgA/41.1.35.1
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Re:Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need ... by chainsaw10 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:25PM (#15411899)
I'm curious as to what good reason there is to have the Android user-agent string contain "Mobile Safari"...

The rest of it looks like fairly standard user-agent string antics.

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Re:Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need ... by smorks on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:59PM (#15412141)
chrome on android also has Mobile Safari in their UA
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Re:Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need ... by chainsaw10 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:29PM (#15412348)
Ah, okay, that makes more sense.

I guess maybe it was to enable touch on some websites?

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Re:Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need ... by eridius on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:11PM (#15412230)
The reasoning is probably pretty similar to why all browsers claim to be "Mozilla".
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Re:Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need ... by LoSboccacc on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:45PM (#15410591)
well, they even say it, it's a thinly wrapped webkit on ios (as to be expected given the restrictions) and a thinly wrapped chromium on android
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