[whatwg] Why do we need Mozilla in userAgent string?

Biju bijumaillist at gmail.com
Sat Mar 26 10:47:08 PDT 2011


Nearly all browsers have word "Mozilla" in userAgent string, hence no
benefit in detecting that at server.
So why do we need "Mozilla" in userAgent string?

Cheers
Biju


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