Re: Epiphany User-agent

[Felix Miata <mrmazda earthlink net>]

On 2011/05/10 11:30 (GMT+0300) Ivaylo Valkov composed:

> Tech (aqk) wrote:

> >  My web-browsing tracking system shows Epiphany as being  "Safari under
> >  Linux".

> >  This presumably from Epiphany's user agent:

> >  Is there any reason you have to show the "Safari" in it?

> I am not Epiphany developer, but here is what I can say and it is
> probably true. Epiphany uses WebKit as rendering engine. So does Safari.
> Sometimes JavaScript in web pages and web servers detect browser
> capabilities by sniffing the user agent string. With "Safari" in the
> user agent it is ensured Epiphany will work with such sites and web
> servers when they send data based on user agent.

http://bclary.com/blog/2006/04/21/browser-detection-part-duh-will-they-ever-learn/ 
and http://geckoisgecko.org/ address the same problem with Gecko browsers 
other than Firefox. Web designers as a group aren't very bright.
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