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This gives site designers news about browsers design, helps find browsers, offers design resources, lists Internet stats, and sells books for building effective websites. This also gives designers news about selected site design and deployment tools. Finally, as wise font use is key to good design, this also reports new updated fonts, especially free flexible fonts. First published in Sep 1998, this is updated each Saturday, with news updated succinctly throughout each day.
♿Special Note: the Browser News wasn’t published from early June to late September 2020, due to an infection which has left me paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a bed and wheelchair.
♿Special Note: the Browser News is normally updated daily, but hospital stays result in it sometimes being updated weekly.
This focuses on browsers wanted to test websites, e.g. Arc, Avast, Brave, Chrome, DuckDuckGo, Edge, Epic, Firefox, Iron, K-Meleon, Maxthon, Norton, Opera, Pale Moon, Safari, SeaMonkey, TOR, Vivaldi, & Waterfox.
This also focuses on fonts for crafting websites.
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NḄ: some
browsers have userAgent
strings which identify them as other browsers: examples are
1 Brave, which identifies itself as Chrome,
Vivaldi, which also identifies itself as Chrome,
and 3 the TOR browser, which identifies itself as Firefox.
This makes it impossible for browser sniffers to reliably determine the correct browser name,
though sniffers can still determine the correct engine name.
NḄ: some browsers report major version numbers only; minor version numbers are hidden. For example, 1 Internet Explorer 11.0.140 falsely says that it’s Internet Explorer 11.0, Firefox 94.0. falsely says that it’s Firefox 94.0, and 3 Midori 0.5.11 falsely says it’s Midori 0.5. This makes it impossible for browser sniffers to reliably determine the correct browser version vectors.
NḄ: some browsers report the wrong version number/̣vector in their useṛAgent
strings.
For example, Vivaldi 1.15.1147.64 says that it’s 1.96.1147.64. This makes it harder for browser sniffers to reliably determine the correct browser version vectors.