Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:25:55AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Paul Wise:
> 
> > Probably the best solution is to get all the web browsers out there
> > (especially Firefox) to drop the User-Agent HTTP header and not send
> > it to web servers. It is abused way too often by web applications and
> > never really was a good idea in the first place. If someone is on the
> > whatwg/w3c lists and would like to bring this up there, that would be
> > great.
> 
> It's also available from Javascript, and you have somehow deal with
> diverging internal APIs until there's just a single browser codebase
> (and we're apparently heading into the opposite direction).

But then you can check APIs availability, instead of User Agent
strings.

Mike