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utopcell on March 6, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: History of the browser user-agent string (2008)

Different user agents are used for desktop vs mobile pages for the same browser, so a single user agent is not a viable solution now.

contravariant on March 6, 2018 [–]

This might not surprise you, but I think serving the mobile and desktop versions via the same URI is an abomination and needs to stop. Encouraging mobile users to use an app instead is downright sacrilegious.

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