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→‎Sniffing for “Gecko” : Good: some stuff from Discussion I never saw (thanks, "email me when watched pages change" :P ) plus 2008
(→‎Sniffing for “Gecko” : Good: netscape, SSBs, ubiquitous WebKit)
(→‎Sniffing for “Gecko” : Good: some stuff from Discussion I never saw (thanks, "email me when watched pages change" :P ) plus 2008)
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===Sniffing for “Gecko” : Good===
===Sniffing for “Gecko” : Good===
Instead, with '''absolutely no additional work on the part of the author''', the site could work correctly on dozens of other Gecko-based browsers on multiple operating systems and hardware configurations: Camino, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, K-Meleon, SeaMonkey, Netscape Navigator 9, and [http://geckoisgecko.org others] (as well as Mozilla 1.7.x and Netscape 8, for Gecko 1.7.x).
Instead, with '''absolutely no additional work on the part of the author''', the site could work correctly on dozens of other Gecko-based browsers on multiple operating systems and hardware configurations: Camino, <s>Epiphany</s>, Flock, Galeon, K-Meleon, SeaMonkey, Netscape Navigator 9, Maemo Browser, and [http://geckoisgecko.org others] (as well as Mozilla 1.7.x and Netscape 8, for Gecko 1.7.x).


(also Gecko/XULRunner apps that aren’t primarily browsers, like NNW and friends are with WebKit, or [http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/03/site-specific-browser-webrunner/ site-specific browsers])
(also Gecko/XULRunner apps that aren’t primarily browsers, like NNW and friends are with WebKit, or [http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2007/03/site-specific-browser-webrunner/ site-specific browsers] [Prism])


(this is a good thing)  
(this is a good thing)  
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(something about how the rv: compatibility works: 1.7.x, 1.8.0.x, 1.8.1.x, 1.9.x, with aN, bN, and pre)
(something about how the rv: compatibility works: 1.7.x, 1.8.0.x, 1.8.1.x, 1.9.x, with aN, bN, and pre)


(similar applies to WebKit <s>on the Mac</s>: Safari, OmniWeb, Shiira, Sunrise Browser, "utilities" like Paparazzi and NNW..., Nokia's S60 browser, Swift on Windows, Unity on Linux; and perhaps WinIE & derivatives?)
(nelsonb suggested we show some Gecko UA strings and highlight the common parts)
 
(similar applies to WebKit <s>on the Mac</s>: Safari, OmniWeb, Shiira, Sunrise Browser, "utilities" like Paparazzi and NNW..., Nokia's S60 browser, Swift on Windows, Unity on Linux, Epiphany; and perhaps WinIE & derivatives?)




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