2009
2008
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
by François Hodierne & 2 others
And then Google built Chrome, and Chrome used Webkit, and it was like Safari, and wanted pages built for Safari, and so pretended to be Safari. And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, and Chrome called itself Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13, and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.
2007
2006
2005
Opera 8 beta 3 introduces User JavaScript
by François Hodierne & 1 other (via)
User JavaScript is a new feature that lets the user configure Opera to include a specific JavaScript library on all pages. Users who know JavaScript can write their own scripts and share them with others.
The Acid2 challenge to Microsoft
by François Hodierne (via)
To the Web community I want to say: Microsoft has now been challenged. They will respond, if enough people remind them of the challenge. Please remind them. And, when IE 7 is released, make sure this is the first thing you type into it:
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