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This is quite funny
I am not laughing one bit let me tell you. Honesty in user agents is one of the last few defenses we have against hackers running rampant on the internet and turning it into some lawless wasteland where people don't even answer truthfully about their A/S/L.
I have not seen that in a long time.
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We don't need user agents for that. There's an easy way to tell whether a visitor wants a cleaner view of a page, without Javascript: Yes.
I said "mobile", not "cleaner". Sizes and aspect ratios are different on phones than PCs.
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I am not laughing one bit let me tell you. Honesty in user agents is one of the last few defenses we have against hackers running rampant on the internet and turning it into some lawless wasteland where people don't even answer truthfully about their A/S/L.
> "A/S/L" I have not seen that in a long time.
Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.
That's assuming that the well-paid and comfortable engineers decided on and implemented the patch.
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I said "mobile", not "cleaner". Sizes and aspect ratios are different on phones than PCs.
the could be accomplished just by having User-Agent: mobile, all the other data in the user-agent are useless for this purpose.
Now consider that mobile devices are different as well..
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We don't need user agents for that. There's an easy way to tell whether a visitor wants a cleaner view of a page, without Javascript: Yes.
I said "mobile", not "cleaner". Sizes and aspect ratios are different on phones than PCs.
Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.
Of all the security post-mortems I’ve ever wanted to read, it’s sad I’ll probably never get to read this one and its tale of how a team of well-paid comfortable engineers got together and decided this patch was a good idea.
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I said "mobile", not "cleaner". Sizes and aspect ratios are different on phones than PCs.
the could be accomplished just by having User-Agent: mobile, all the other data in the user-agent are useless for this purpose.
But it's not quite that. It's not that a device is "mobile" instead of "stationary" that matters. It's maybe that it's a touch screen. It's maybe that it's a small screen. (With an especially uneven aspect ratio?) Maybe that it's handheld. It's maybe the combination of all of those things. But it's not really that it's "mobile" exactly. And there are, and possibly will be increasing proportions of, devices that have some but not all of these qualities we package together in our brains as 'typical mobile'