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		jacobr on April 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project So what will the new User Agent string be? "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) Blink/537.33 (KHTML; like WebKit; like Safari; like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1438.7"? Hopefully people will finally start using feature detection rather than user agent detection...

mikewest on April 4, 2013 [–]

The user agent string is, for the moment, remaining exactly the same format. For better or worse, all those crufty bits are currently necessary for compatibility with sites doing a poor job of sniffing out functionality.

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