[SOLVED]: Is there an uptodate list of current browser user agents somewhere?

[Fabio Neves]

Depending on what you're trying to achieve, testing for user agents might
not be the best idea. If we're talking about client-side stuff, the best
practice is to test for browser features and ignore the UA.



*Fabio Neves (FZero)*
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 09:26:13AM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> > On 14-01-09 03:28 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > >
> > > * all known software UA strings
> > >   http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/useragentstring.php
> >
> > User agent detection and capability determination is part of the HTML5
> > standard. If you're pretending to be something you're not, you're on
> > your own with how well current websites will respond.
>
> Given the quality of what web developers often make, you are on your
> own already.  They obviously aren't testing with anything other than their
> choice of browser and often arbitrarily declare that it isn't supported
> on any other browser, and hence you ahve to "lie" to work around their
> arbitrary blocking.
>
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