Ant wrote:
I will be using http://geckoisgecko.org/ for now on. It's much better than me having to explain it!
The intention there is good, but IMO, the value is somewhat limited, by the fact that too much of the data is several years old.
Thus, almost everything there is either *very* obscure (e.g., K-meleon), or abandoned, or both.
And no mention of newer Gecko-based projects (e.g., Waterfox, IceFox, IceDragon, etc.), much less projects that support multiple rendering engines (such as Lunascape).
From a standpoint of developers, there is often an attitude of "We don't have the capacity of supporting every possible browser and operating system", and if every browser is viewed as a unique piece of software (even erroneously), that's reasonable. A look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers shows just how many browser projects have been discontinued.
However, it's easy for developers to focus too closely on the UI and presentation to the user, and miss that, the vast majority of the time, the distinguishing factor is not the brand name, but the underlying rendering engine, and that most of the time, the brand name is irrelevant.
Most of the time, there is sufficient spoofing that it doesn't matter which browser you're using. It's noteworthy that the UA string for other browsers (including IE and Chrome) do spoof Mozilla,
Thus, if you go to http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php, some interesting examples:
- Chrome 41: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36
- IE 11 (on Win7-64): Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36
- Edge: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246
- Safari 7: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.75.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0.3 Safari/7046A194A
Unfortunately, there are brain-dead developers that are overly-insistent on searching for brand identity, than underlying capacity, and too clever, in knowing how to search for "Firefox", rather than for "Gecko".
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