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 add UA string detail, remove redundancy, and increase > compatibility with Internet Explorer, and are happening in conjunction with > similar changes in Firefox 4 (which you can read about at > http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/final-user-agent-string-for-firefox-4/). > I find textual links, rather than bare URLs, more user-friendly. "bug 54556" could be used as the text for the first link, at least. > Here’s a few sample pre-change UA strings: > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, > like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4 > Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/534.16+ > (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4 > > Here’s some sample post-change UA strings: > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) > Version/5.0.3 Safari/534.24 > Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/534.24 > (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/534.24 >
"Here's" should probably be "Here are" in both cases above. > The “U” SSL encryption strength token has been removed. > It is still present in the Mac UA strings you showed above. Thanks for writing the post! -Adam
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