On Saturday 2013-08-31 18:38 -0400, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > On 8/31/2013 3:51 PM, Tom Schuster wrote: > >I started implementing window.navigator and wondered which UserAgent we > >want to use. We should try to find the most minimal web compatible agent. > >That probably means something like this: > > > >Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) Servo/xxx like Gecko > For starters why don't we just duplicate the Firefox UA string? > It'll get you the most compatible content, in general.
So I think there's a tradeoff here. Adding a "Servo" token is probably harmful, in that pieces of data added to UA strings tend to accumulate over time, and they're much harder to remove than to add. And they also tend to be misused more often than they're used well. On the other hand, not offering a "standard" way to detect Servo could lead to authors (eventually) using other techniques to detect Servo, which could lead to a set of Web-incompatible behaviors that you can't fix because authors are using one for detection of the others (in various combinations). (This is the problem IE had around IE7 and IE8.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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