Android browser reports itself as Apple Safari!

**CJ Chitwood** · 10-25-2008, 10:44 AM

Hey all...

I just took a look-see at my web access logs right after surfing one of my pages on my G1, and I found my G1 in the list, but it appears to have portions of it based on Apple Safari -- or at least so it says...

Code:

98.224.37.16 - - [25/Oct/2008:10:39:19 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 434 "http://www.dennettesdesigns.com/cj/Stuph/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 1.0; en-us; dream) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Mobile Safari/523.12.2

At least it shows Mozilla, Linux, Android, Dream before AppleWebKit and Safari...

**mateo2** · 10-25-2008, 10:52 AM

They both use WebKit as the html rendering engine. WebKit is open-source. Safari uses it, Android Browser uses it, Google Chrome uses it and a few others.

**KumaSan** · 10-25-2008, 11:03 AM

Here is a good explanation of all that craziness in the User Agent string:

http://www.webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

**KnightmareCROW** · 06-04-2009, 10:36 PM

Almost all smartphones work off of WebKit, so its no surprise. And to add, many websites r now iPhone compatible so this is better for all webkit users.