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Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints?
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
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`Sec-CH-UA` vs `Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List` #291

Closed summercms closed 2 years ago

summercms commented 2 years ago

Currently updating our parser code to process the new Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List and got a bit confused at first.

It would of made more sense if Sec-CH-UA was renamed to Sec-CH-UA-Short-Version-List then I would have clicked straight away.

The reason for opening this issue is because I think the spec should mention the difference between Sec-CH-UA vs Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List.

For example adding a line like this in the spec would have prevented me getting confused:

The headers Sec-CH-UA and Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List are exactly the same with the only difference Sec-CH-UA shows the major semantic version value only and Sec-CH-UA-Full-Version-List shows the full semantic version value. To learn more about the semantic versioning see here: https://semver.org/

miketaylr commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback @summercms! I'm not sure it makes sense to link to semver - most browsers these days treat major versions as a regular marketing moment, either monthly or bi-annually. And minor can sometimes indicate security releases, ESR updates, stability updates, etc.

But... I agree we can make this less confusing.