Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > information in the process. The fact that it's used to pass > information about available features has led to a lot of user agent > spoofing which means that analytics, statistics and debugging are > likely harder than they need to be. Yes, that is a valid viewpoint, but ... > When Git developed capabilities and the "agent" capability, the doc > took care of saying things that it "MUST NOT be used to > programmatically assume the presence or absence of particular > features". ... the proposed os-version thing has the same wording in its documentation, doesn't it? What is being added is not to be used in a way that requires parsing and trusting the result. So unless your point is that users (like those who parse User-Agent string by browsers) will do the wrong thing and assume these strings are usable for feature detection anyway so we should make it easier to parse, I'd have to disagree. If we are not aiming to make it easier to parse and assume certain things that we do not want them to, I do not see why we need to have the pieces of information in two separate capabilities. Thanks.
