Re: Iceweasel and Firefox compatibility
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> wrote:
> I can't think of a better way to stop this ridiculous UA mess. It has to
> stop, this silliness has lasted too many years already.
A better way would bring on the User-Agent flag day, where all the
browser vendors turn off submitting user agents on a specific day (say
2010-10-10). As for how to achieve that, some ideas:
Get the IETF HTTP-WG to look at deprecating User-Agent:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/httpbis-charter.html
It appears that there is an ongoing effort to revise HTTP/1.1, it
would be nice to take advantage of this and get User-Agent removed
from or deprecated in the revision of HTTP/1.1.
Propose a User-Agent flag day on the WHATWG implementors list:
http://lists.whatwg.org/listinfo.cgi/implementors-whatwg.org
I'm not involved in the IETF or WHATWG, but I hope someone reading
this thread can do something about this.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
Reply to: