Bug 935216 Comment 70 Edit History

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When [writing this morning](https://www.otsukare.info/2021/02/15/capping-macos-user-agent), I was looking for information about Apple and WebKit. There are two threads on webkit-dev mailing list:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-May/thread.html#31195
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/thread.html#31571(In reply to Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) from comment #68)


Henri about I see how my comment can be misread. 

> (In reply to Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow from comment #67)
> > Google intends to provide the real OS version number through the `Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version`
> 
> The blink-dev thread doesn't document any proper use case for exposing the operating system version. 

More exactly Rick Byers [says](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hAI4QoX6rEo/m/tPxfPScoAQAJ):
> LGTM2 to fix the UA string, but only after some API (Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version or anything else) is fully available as a work-around.

I didn't say it was done in any official way.  Now I think it would be hasty to use the capping as a justification for clients hints, hence the ongoing discussion.
When [writing this morning](https://www.otsukare.info/2021/02/15/capping-macos-user-agent), I was looking for information about Apple and WebKit. There are two threads on webkit-dev mailing list:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-May/thread.html#31195
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/thread.html#31571

(In reply to Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) from comment #68)

Henri about I see how my comment can be misread. 

> (In reply to Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow from comment #67)
> > Google intends to provide the real OS version number through the `Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version`
> 
> The blink-dev thread doesn't document any proper use case for exposing the operating system version. 

More exactly Rick Byers [says](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hAI4QoX6rEo/m/tPxfPScoAQAJ):
> LGTM2 to fix the UA string, but only after some API (Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version or anything else) is fully available as a work-around.

I didn't say it was done in any official way.  Now I think it would be hasty to use the capping as a justification for clients hints, hence the ongoing discussion.
When [writing this morning](https://www.otsukare.info/2021/02/15/capping-macos-user-agent), I was looking for information about Apple and WebKit. There are two threads on webkit-dev mailing list:

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-May/thread.html#31195
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/thread.html#31571


Henri about 

> (In reply to Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) from comment #68)
> > (In reply to Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow from comment #67)
> > Google intends to provide the real OS version number through the `Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version`
> 
> The blink-dev thread doesn't document any proper use case for exposing the operating system version. 

I see how my comment can be misread. 

More exactly Rick Byers [says](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hAI4QoX6rEo/m/tPxfPScoAQAJ):
> LGTM2 to fix the UA string, but only after some API (Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version or anything else) is fully available as a work-around.

I didn't say it was done in any official way.  Now I think it would be hasty to use the capping as a justification for clients hints, hence the ongoing discussion.

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