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Compatibilitycels get r*ped again as Mozilla is forced to freeze a part of their user agent string

https://miketaylr.com/posts/2022/12/how-the-IE-11-ua-string-broke-sites-in-firefox.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34178880

Apparently Mozilla had to freeze their user agent string because retarded webshitters are running code like var isIE = /rv:11/i.test(navigator.userAgent);

Obviously this is shitty regex, so as a result, "rv: 110.0" gets parsed as version 11 of Internet Explorer

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User agents are such an r-slured fricking clusterfrick of false information. Someone needs to just do away with it and tell the web devs make it standards compliant and stop targetting specific browsers. tbh webdevs are at the root of this evil as they are at the root of many evils

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The last good webdevs left this earth on the halebop comet to go to the next level

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Remember the old rumor of Microsoft jumping straight from Windows 8 to Windows 10 because "compatibility issues from software assuming version 9* is DOS-based 95/98"

Why can't rvs include characters or there be a separate identifier per-browser? Makes no sense to rely purely on "oh well the version is 11? Probably internet explorer"


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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.

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That settles it. Don't try to hide behind principle or even your own pathetic cowardice as an excuse anymore.

You're just an evil motherlover.

Hope the pibbles get you eventually.

Or you finally realize that, yes, you DO take pleasure in causing animals pain, and in a brief moment of lucidity you relieve us of your existence with a shotgun.

Your body would be more useful to society as dog food than in it's current state.

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