LGTM2, and as someone who has been a sceptic of UA freezing in general (rather than reducing entropy for very old versions), it's good to see this kind of flexibility.
On Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 8:47:48 AM UTC-7 Yoav Weiss wrote: > That's LGTM1 > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 3:09 PM Yoav Weiss (@Shopify) < > yoavwe...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> LGTM >> >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 9:53 PM Janice Liu <janice...@chromium.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Contact emails >>> >>> janice...@chromium.org, miketa...@chromium.org >>> >>> Explainer >>> >>> None. This is a minor change. >>> >>> Specification >>> >>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#field.user-agent >>> >>> Summary >>> >>> User Agent (UA) strings in Chromium have been moving towards reducing or >>> freezing information - but until WebKit allows us to implement UA client >>> hints, >>> >> :( >> >> >>> we propose adding the OS bugfix number to the UA, for compatibility >>> purposes. >>> >>> >>> Blink component >>> >>> Chromium>Mobile>iOSWeb >>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Chromium%3EMobile%3EiOSWeb> >>> >>> Motivation >>> >>> The Chrome for iOS User-Agent header only includes the major and minor >>> version numbers, while Safari and Firefox for iOS include the major, minor, >>> and bugfix numbers. We have received a request from external partners to >>> match this pattern, and are aware of at least one platform that relies on >>> having an accurate bugfix version number to ensure the latest security >>> updates are installed. >>> >>> UA strings in Chromium have been moving towards reducing or freezing >>> information - but until WebKit allows us to implement UA client hints, we >>> propose adding the bugfix number to the UA, for compatibility purposes. >>> >>> In practice: >>> >>> Before this change: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5 like Mac OS >>> X) >>> >>> AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/123.0.2924.75 >>> >>> Mobile/14E5239e Safari/602.1 >>> >>> >>> After this change (note the additional “_1” in the OS version token): >>> Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X) >>> >>> AppleWebKit/602.1.50 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/123.0.2924.75 >>> >>> Mobile/14E5239e Safari/602.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> Initial public proposal >>> >>> None >>> >>> TAG review >>> >>> None - this is a very simple change and aligns us with what other >>> browsers are shipping. >>> >>> TAG review status >>> >>> Not applicable >>> >>> Risks >>> >>> Interoperability and Compatibility >>> >>> None >>> >>> >>> Gecko: No signal (Firefox on iOS already follows this pattern) >>> >>> WebKit: No signal (mobile Safari already follows this pattern) >>> >>> Web developers: We have received at least one external partner request >>> for this change. >>> >>> >>> WebView application risks >>> >>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such >>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? >>> >>> N/A (this is for iOS) >>> >>> >>> Debuggability >>> >>> None >>> >>> >>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >>> ? >>> >>> No >>> >>> Flag name on chrome://flags >>> >>> None >>> >>> Finch feature name >>> >>> kAddBugFixNumber >>> >>> Non-finch justification >>> >>> None >>> >>> Requires code in //chrome? >>> >>> False >>> >>> Tracking bug >>> >>> https://issues.chromium.org/u/1/issues/350426233 >>> >>> Estimated milestones >>> >>> No milestones specified >>> >>> >>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status >>> >>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5084885065400320?gate=5184007944536064 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/01a6fedf-3b5a-4254-9bcd-2672d4cfec19n%40chromium.org >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/01a6fedf-3b5a-4254-9bcd-2672d4cfec19n%40chromium.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/651c6a5a-33da-4fd6-9179-0ce106a946cbn%40chromium.org.
