Xusontha to Programmer [email protected] • edit-21 year agoWelp, guess I'm going to hellloot.buckodr.inkimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down145 cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareidunnololzlink50•edit-21 year agoThis is actually exactly how user agents evolved. Chrome pretends to be safari. IE pretends to be Netscape. Safari pretends to be Firefox. All popular browsers pretend to be at least one other browser for compatibility. https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•edit-21 year agoSo it’s kind of like back in the Netscape days. Men are men, women are men, boys are men, and little girls are FBI agents.
This is actually exactly how user agents evolved.
Chrome pretends to be safari.
IE pretends to be Netscape.
Safari pretends to be Firefox.
All popular browsers pretend to be at least one other browser for compatibility.
https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/
So it’s kind of like back in the Netscape days.
Men are men, women are men, boys are men, and little girls are FBI agents.