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Going way back to the original iPhone Web Apps session at WWDC in 2007, they specifically cautioned about the problem of sniffing UA strings.

Of course, the reality of the web meant they had to do a bunch of compatibility hacks to get pages to display well.

(Gecko appeared in the original Safari on iPhone UA, IIRC)



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