Andy Parkins [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-12-21 🗒️ Summary of this message: Amir Taaki ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-12-21
🗒️ Summary of this message: Amir Taaki suggests using a hierarchical method for mapping browser information, making it easier to scan all browsers using WebKit.
📝 Original message:On 2011 December 21 Wednesday, Amir Taaki wrote:

> In the original intention for BIP_0014, that would map to:
>
> /Gecko:20110613/Firefox:6.0a2/Mozilla:5.0/
>
> With something like WebKit, it becomes easy to see why that would be
> useful. You can suddenly do a network wide scan of all browsers using
> WebKit, rather than having to maintain a database of all WebKit enabled
> browsers.

This seems excellent to me.

I think most developers want to do the right thing when it comes to standards,
and it is only the inflexibility or ambiguity of a standard that means they
don't.

This heirarchical method lets every client supply all the information they
have -- nobody has to make a decision to leave something out. The internal
debate they would have "is my gui version more important than my protocol
engine version?" is unnecessary.



Andy

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Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins at gmail.com
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