The big web sites (you know who we mean) are part of the HTML 5 cabal. Meaning WebKit and Microsoft ('cos they'll always be there) with Mozilla becoming increasingly irrelevant (look at the stats). We have a volatile HTML specification (HTML 5 is whatever the cabal decides it is today) so that only the seriously resourced can keep up. We fear that browser innovation is now essentially dead. Frankly, it seems pretty pointless just updating the version numbers of Chrome (66) and FF (59) which is what has mostly happened over the last couple of years. New Stuff: Again it's been a very long time since the last update. And if you want to check your browser string use our cheap trick page. to know who and what is crawling around your site. You need this information to make the fewest checks possible for the browser environment or to optimise the display or. Browser IDs, more correctly User Agent IDs, appear, among other places, as the environmental variable HTTP_USER_AGENT in Apache. Nominally RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 define them ( get RFCs) but only as an afterthought (the RFCs define HTTP 1.0 and 1.1). We started these pages with four strings because we had never seen a comprehensive list anywhere. So we split the mobile things onto a separate page.
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