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by markuskobler 4335 days ago
I agree. The first release of IE had a user-agent starting with Mozilla and its something all major browsers (Chrome, Safari, IE, Firefox) still prefix their user-agents with.

  Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 3.1)
Still none of that detracts from how broken relying on user-agent to improve user experience is. Browsers like Chrome seem to handle features like webp support better with the Accept: image/webp header but even that has its limitations if you care about animated webp or not say.