On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:48 PM, JP Rosevear wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 16:03 +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> After taking all input into account, I have decided that we should drop 
>> the "Tablet" token from Fennec's UA on tablets. This is what Android 
>> browser and Chrome do, and corresponds to option D) of my original 
>> options. So for non-"Mobile" devices, it would be:
>> 
>> Mozilla/5.0 (Android; rv:12.0) Gecko/12.0 Firefox/12.0
>> ...
> 
> If I understand what you are proposing I think its reasonable given we
> are switching to the "desktop" UA.  But I come from the camp that UA
> changes should be for a deeply clear benefit, simply "it won't harm
> much" is not an argument for change in a property where changing it
> *never* again is the ideal.

Yeah, I think what's missing in the current proposal is a clear statement of 
benefit. I agree that the downside seems small with this one.

J

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Johnathan Nightingale
VP Firefox Engineering
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