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Does anyone think that User Agent should be killed off? If we had no way of detecting between browsers that would lead to a much more consistent cross-browser
by fouc 7y ago
Does anyone think that User Agent should be killed off?
If we had no way of detecting between browsers that would lead to a much more consistent cross-browser experience in the long run and not allow one browser's dominance to affect the internet experience for the rest.
- thayne 7y agoIt also removes some legitimate use cases including: - identifying active sessions - working around bugs in specific versions of a browser/os - changing UI to match the native experience of a user - seeing percentage of users using different browsers (which is important to know if you can use new features in web apis) - etc.
- forgotmypwd123 7y agoWeb pages should not work around browser bugs, its like a linux distro working around kernel bugs. Just fucking fix it.
- namibj 7y agoYeah, it's called polyfills. It's bloat when not needed.
- WhyNotHugo 7y agoYup, it should be killed off. First step would be for all browsers to send the same UA. Once it becomes completely meaningless, nobody will read it any more and we can drop it permanently.