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.
2005
Beta is mostly feature complete
by François Hodierne
Anne Van Kesteren on the IE7 masquerade (he's a Opera fellow now).
molly.com » That’s why it’s Called Beta
by François Hodierne (via)
WASP is lossing his credibility in the IE7 masquerade.
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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