Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by somethingnew » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:20 PM UTC

Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String
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Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by MattBearman » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

This actually seems like a really smart move on MS's part. I've seen far to many sites that have blanket conditionals for any msie browser, which will potentially disable supported HTML5 / CSS3 features in IE9 +

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by xixora1 » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:42 PM UTC

Check what @ppk says: http://mobilism.nl/blog/2013/03/ie11-to-disguise-itself

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by bionsuba » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

Because changing the user agent for this has worked to great effect before. /s

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by zalew » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

> Microsoft also included the command "Like Gecko" which instructs the website to send back the same version of the website as they would to Firefox

seriously, who does that? 'msie5.0 mozilla', good times. 'like gecko' => msie trying to look like webkit, who tries to look like firefox. yeah, makes perfect sense. could anyone give an example of a modern application that checks against the user agent string?

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by Banduin » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:47 PM UTC

zalew wrote: post #5

> Microsoft also included the command "Like Gecko" which instructs the website to send back the same version of the website as they would to Firefox seriously, who does that? 'msie5.0 mozilla', good times. 'like gecko' => msie trying to look like webkit, who tries to look like firefox. yeah, makes perfect sense. could anyone give an example of a modern application that checks against the user agent string?

Chrome?

> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.40 Safari/537.31

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:48 PM UTC

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Post by mrspeaker » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

xixora1 wrote: post #3

Check what @ppk says: http://mobilism.nl/blog/2013/03/ie11-to-disguise-itself

For the non-clickers: It's Webkit, not Firefox that it will be disguising itself as:

"The 'like Gecko' string has been part of most WebKit-browser UA strings from time immemorial, but has never been used by Firefox, which instead uses 'Gecko'".

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by zalew » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:49 PM UTC

Banduin wrote: post #6

zalew wrote: post #5

> Microsoft also included the command "Like Gecko" which instructs the website to send back the same version of the website as they would to Firefox seriously, who does that? 'msie5.0 mozilla', good times. 'like gecko' => msie trying to look like webkit, who tries to look like firefox. yeah, makes perfect sense. could anyone give an example of a modern application that checks against the user agent string?

Chrome? > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.40 Safari/537.31

I meant 'who does check that user agent', edited to clarify.

Re: Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String

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Post by darkchasma » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

Oh, wonderful, another quirks mode. The moment FF implements something that IE doesn't, we're right back into the shit.