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		eCa on July 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE” This seems like a way to force developers to use the correct way to detect which browser is used: Check for the specific thing you want to do.

sp332 on July 2, 2013 [–]

I thought it was because (when the standard was defined) some web servers would only serve compliant content to Netscape browsers. edit: according to aclimatt, it was used for frames detection.

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