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No, the idea was right from the beginning that you could name (additionally) other user agents conforming to the same or lower specs as your client. (Without t
by masswerk 4y ago
No, the idea was right from the beginning that you could name (additionally) other user agents conforming to the same or lower specs as your client.
(Without this, it would have been nearly impossible to introduce a new browser. Mind that browsers were much more dissimilar in the early years. E.g., Netscape Navigator could access virtual hosts, while NCSA Mosaic, which didn't know about the host header field, could not. While some browsers came with JS, others, like Viola Web, followed a different scheme, more similar to HyperCard, etc. Therefore, a server may have well checked the user agent string in order to decide how to serve what content.)