On 15/06/19 01:34, WaltS48 wrote:
On 6/14/19 8:18 PM, meagain wrote:
...>
Why is the "user agent" still needed? Seriously, have html
implementations diverged so much?
Not so just HTML but CSS and JS as well. If anything, implementations
have converged. But there's nothing so precious as a web designer's layout.
Probably so the web server knows it is a secure browser accessing it.
But I could be mistaken.
The discussion of spoofing has indicated why the UA string is neither
useful nor effective as a security feature.
What actually happens is a sort of informal conspiracy of folly
involving ignorant pointy-headed bosses and full-of-themselves designers
either as web-site creators or as creators of web design tools, not to
forget embrace-and-extend browser corporations encouraging the use of
their own features.
This <https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/> applies.
/df
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