On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:04:12PM -0400, Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not seeing what us being different is buying us though. Sure, the > mozilla format is stupid, but there doesn't seem to be any advantage > to the way you've done it. It's ok for us to be different, but there > should be a good reason to be.
Here is the rationale behind the change in xulrunner: * It shortens the already long user agent string so that additions such as product name are not painful, * removes pointless information (the date in the original string indicates the date of the build, not that of the API), * keeps the "Gecko" string (which some site might want, seing how Apple and Konqueror did put a "like Gecko" string), * and finally avoid confusion with other Debian release informations that may be present in the product specific part (Galeon, Epiphany, etc.) I changed in firefox as well because in the end, it will be built against xulrunner and will get this change anyway. The only problem with it is that it gives the firefox version, not the gecko one... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
