stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe vs ua-client-hints

stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe

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Wouldn't it be nice if `User-Agent` was a (set of) client hints? (by WICG)

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stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe		ua-client-hints
	Project
1	Mentions	13
-	Stars	575
-	Growth	1.7%
-	Activity	4.4
-	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
	Language	Bikeshed
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe

Posts with mentions or reviews of stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-14.

JP Morgan Chase Bank, or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2021

ua-client-hints

Posts with mentions or reviews of ua-client-hints. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-19.

Website Fidelity
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2022

The Client Hints specification covers a lot of this already - https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#content-adaptation-u... ... DPR, width, and viewport-width are already available in some browsers. Hopefully other hints will be available soon.
UA Gotta Be Kidding
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2022
Példátlan leállás jöhet a neten, és nem is lesz egyszerű megoldani
2 projects | /r/hungary | 19 Feb 2022
Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2022

I encourage you to review the decision making and engage in the discussion here: https://github.com/WICG/ua-client-hints
W3C User Agent Client Hints
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2022
Google Chrome Update will cause Big Issue For 2 Billion Users
2 projects | /r/programming | 24 Dec 2021

chrome is starting to implement UA-CH, which splits up user agent info into individual headers sent by the client: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
JP Morgan Chase Bank, or Why Not to Whitelist Operating System User Agents
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2021

As a Firefox/FreeBSD user occasionally annoyed by this nonsense, but not being knowledgeable about modern web standards evolution, I wonder if https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/ will fix this by killing User-Agent headers.
W3C User-Agent Client Hints ( SEC-CH-UA-* HTTP Headers)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2021
Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites
1 project | /r/programming | 14 Aug 2021

ua-ch might reduce the amount of data browsers send, though it's gonna take a while to move away from regular user agents: https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/
Mozilla alters stance on User-Agent Client Hints from “non-harmful” to “harmful”
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2021

There is a JS companion to this proposal that splits up the information in a similar way
https://wicg.github.io/ua-client-hints/#interface

What are some alternatives?

When comparing stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-fe and ua-client-hints you can also consider the following projects:

eslint-plugin-compat - Check the browser compatibility of your code

web - Pi-hole Dashboard for stats and more

stylelint-no-unsupported-browser-features - Disallow features that aren't supported by your target browser audience.

chromium-legacy - Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+

evercookie - Produces persistent, respawning "super" cookies in a browser, abusing over a dozen techniques. Its goal is to identify users after they've removed standard cookies and other privacy data such as Flash cookies (LSOs), HTML5 storage, SilverLight storage, and others.

ethical-ad-client - Ethical Ads JavaScript client

hosts-blocklists - Automatically updated, moderated and optimized lists for blocking ads, trackers, malware and other garbage

notrack-blocklists

webappsec-permissions-policy - A mechanism to selectively enable and disable browser features and APIs

webcompat-addon - Hotfixing the web, one Intervention at a time.