Closed Bug 854728 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

IE11 using Gecko in user agent

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Other, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: sparky, Unassigned)

Details

http://www.neowin.net/news/ie11-to-appear-as-firefox-to-avoid-legacy-ie-css According to a leaked version of IE11, the user agent will replace "MSIE" with "IE" and contain "like Gecko". Mozilla/5.0 (IE 11.0; Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0E; .NET4.0C; rv:11.0) like Gecko Maybe this is harmless, maybe not. Now seems like the best time to be proactive about what this could impact. We don't want to end up with another useless "Mozilla/*" in the user agent.
IMO: if the IE team feels compelled to add "Gecko" in the first place, it's too late to prevent this required "junk" in the UA string. Unless we want to drop it too, to wean the web off some of its sniffing - and I don't think that's likely to happen. Closing this bug, as I don't consider it a valid TE issue.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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