And yet when it comes to browser compatibility, it's encouraged, nigh necessary,...

thwarted on Aug 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)

And yet when it comes to browser compatibility, it's encouraged, nigh necessary, to test for capabilities rather than check version strings and assume that the version string is saying something meaningful about the environment.

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36", indeed.