Today we discovered that Closure breaks if we fix https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968056 … without using an IE/Edge/WebKit UA string: <https://github.com/google/closure-library/issues/883 …>. And other Google sites are broken with Gecko's current behavior. So Google is forcing all UA strings to look like IE/Edge/WebKit. :(
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Replying to @really_bz @bz_moz
I don't see anything wrong with all UA strings converging, at least in theory? Like they all did on Mozilla/ long ago? Just one more round through the spin cycle. Now, in practice this may be bad because it breaks other Firefox-sniffing codepaths that you still need...
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...but in an ideal world, no sniffing is needed, and all browsers include Mozilla to defeat 2000s-era sniffing, and all browsers include WebKit to defeat 2010s-era sniffing. Maybe in 2028 we all include Servo!
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What's really sad is that in the Closure case here no sniffing was needed to get identical behavior out of browsers and Closure added sniffing _anyway_.
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