

Here’s a great article explaining the history of the User Agent. There are ways toĭevelop your web site to progressively enhance itself based on theĪvailability of features rather than by targeting specific browsers. Regardless of which browser or device they’re using. The Web is meant to be accessible to everyone, Serving different Web pages or services to different browsers is Often, web developers will UA sniffing for browser detection. I should point out, that this isn’t a radical departure from what Microsoft did with IE 11, which on Windows 8 reads: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3 Trident/7.0 rv:11.0) like Gecko, as explained in this post. You’ll also notice that the entire string ends with “Edge/12.0″, which Chrome does not. Neowin recently reported that Microsoft’s new browser for Windows 10, Spartan, uses the Chrome UA string, “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0 WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.71 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0″.
