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I agree with cbr, there are too many cases where feature detection either isn't possible or hinders the performance of the application.

Does anyone know if there is an authoritative database of user agent strings, their associated browsers and the features of those browsers? If this resource existed, it would be trivial to wrap it in an API that web developers could use in their apps.



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