• @reddig33
    72•5 months ago

    You shouldn’t have to do this. I blame W3C org and their ilk for putting the rendering engine, browser brand, and browser version in the response header. All your browser should be telling the site is the versions of html, css, and JavaScript it supports and whether it’s mobile or desktop.

    • stinerman [Ohio]English
      21•5 months ago

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    • @9point6
      13•5 months ago

      versions of html, css, and JavaScript it supports

      Given the level of support a browser has for something is basically the browser’s version (there’s no such thing as a version number for JavaScript or CSS for example, there’s a spec that’s kinda versioned, but browsers don’t implement everything the same), you’ve basically just described user agent strings

      We have feature detection approaches today that make UA based browser detection generally unnecessary but the horse has already bolted on that now