Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-30 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Mark Rowe mr...@apple.com wrote: Safari 5.0.3 will always report a build version of 533.19.4. Safari 5.0.4 will always report a build version of 533.20.27. You already used the former

[webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
Hello WebKit developers, I've created a draft blog post at http://www.webkit.org/blog/?p=1580 about the recent changes I and others have made to the UA string. I'm interested in any feedback you might have. I've written a similar blog post, but focused on Chrome and aimed at a wider audience,

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: I've created a draft blog post at http://www.webkit.org/blog/?p=1580 about the recent changes I and others have made to the UA string. I'm interested in any feedback you might have. Note, since this is a draft, you

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Adam Roben
On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Peter Kasting wrote: UA String Changes On WebKit Trunk Posted by Peter Kasting on Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 10:44 am Recently some changes to the UA string (tracked by https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54556) have landed. These changes are designed to

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Mihai Parparita
Hi Peter, I think you should say User Agent String in the title and maybe in the first paragraph say User Agent (UA) string, so that it's not quite as cryptic. The inline URLs are a bit ugly, perhaps some changes could be turned into a link to the tracking bug and similar changes in Firefox 4

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Patrick R. Gansterer
[mailto:webkit-dev-boun...@lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kasting Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:53 PM To: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: I've created a draft

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Patrick R. Gansterer par...@paroga.comwrote: If you take a look at http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebKit/wince/WebCoreSupport/FrameLoaderClientWinCE.cpp#L57I’m not sure if point 5 is correct. ;-) The WinCE port has still my initial UA string

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
I've incorporated all the existing feedback into the draft. Feel free to take another look. PK ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread David Levin
The blog post begs the question made me wonder. Why was Macintosh; kept when it is redundant with Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7? The reasoning seem analogous to what was given for why Windows; was removed. dave On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: I've

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread David Levin
Ugh my strikethrough on begs the question was lost (and I meant that phrase as a joke). On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM, David Levin le...@google.com wrote: The blog post begs the question made me wonder. Why was Macintosh; kept when it is redundant with Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7? The

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Patrick R. Gansterer
-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Patrick R. Gansterer par...@paroga.com wrote: If you take a look at http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebKit/wince/WebCoreSupport/Fram eLoaderClientWinCE.cpp#L57 I'm not sure

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM, David Levin le...@google.com wrote: The blog post begs the question made me wonder. Why was Macintosh; kept when it is redundant with Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7? The reasoning seem analogous to what was given for why Windows; was removed. Unlike Windows, the

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: I've incorporated all the existing feedback into the draft. Feel free to take another look. Since some folks seem to be unable to see the draft even while logged in, here's the new fulltext. PK --- User Agent

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Rowe
On 2011-03-25, at 12:07, Peter Kasting wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: I've incorporated all the existing feedback into the draft. Feel free to take another look. Since some folks seem to be unable to see the draft even while logged in,

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Rowe mr...@apple.com wrote: Is there some reason why these examples use manufactured Safari build numbers? It's implausible that a version of Safari with a build number of 534.24 would ever claim to be version 5.0.3. Sorry, I wasn't sure what the right

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Rowe
On 2011-03-25, at 12:56, Peter Kasting wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Rowe mr...@apple.com wrote: Is there some reason why these examples use manufactured Safari build numbers? It's implausible that a version of Safari with a build number of 534.24 would ever claim to be

Re: [webkit-dev] UA string changes blog draft

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Kasting
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Mark Rowe mr...@apple.com wrote: On 2011-03-25, at 12:56, Peter Kasting wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Mark Rowe mr...@apple.com wrote: Is there some reason why these examples use manufactured Safari build numbers? It's implausible that a version