WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string

(Warning: Geeky Content) Oh, that the world never had to worry about user-agent strings! But if you care, read this for enlightenment.

Reviewed by jawsjr Sep 11 2008, 01:02pm ( 8 reviews ) • webaim.org

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Rated by jggube on Jan 11 2009, 1:11pm

A discussion of how the user-agent browser header came to existence.
Rated by TheWakeUpCall on Jan 05 2009, 1:53pm

lol when I started reading it I thought it was going to be useless, but it turned out pretty funny. I don't see why they had to do it though, don't all browsers get presented with the same code anyway...
Rated by sikanrong on Dec 27 2008, 11:02am

amazing.
Rated by kuroSAVVAS on Dec 26 2008, 11:55pm

Best explanation of browser history i've seen :D
Reviewed by ui0man on Sep 23 2008, 7:06pm

One gripe... Webkit is based off of KHTML. It isn't pretending anything.
Rated by jawsjr on Sep 11 2008, 1:02pm

(Warning: Geeky Content) Oh, that the world never had to worry about user-agent strings! But if you care, read this for enlightenment.
Rated by itw on Sep 03 2008, 8:39pm

Why Google Chrome has such a weird user agent name: the history of browser user agent names.

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