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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by qwerty456127 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:43AM (#22044243)
IMHO you're right but underestimate the value of what you have mentioned. It is VERY valuable to know which browser caused the exception.
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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by jmcs on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:57AM (#22044339)
Maybe after people stop using the user agent for stupid reasons it can be made useful again. User agents should be stuff like "Firefox 71.0" or "Chrome 79.0.3945", not "Mozilla but really AppleWebKit disguised as KHTML, but no really I'm Chrome but maybe I'm Safari"
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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by HorstG on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:05AM (#22045309)
Yes, but unfortunately using the user agent for only non-stupid reasons is a postcondition for the hell freezing over.
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Re:Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agen... by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:58AM (#22044729)
Hopefully people will think twice before doing stuff that depend on browser.
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