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Layout engines of various browsers

January 27th 2010 in Technology

Recently, one of my friend said he has blocked Trident/4.0 from accessing his websites as he thought its a bot and then his clients complaint that they can’t access their websites. So, I thought I’ll just put some info on it..

Trident (also known as MSHTML) is the name of the layout engine for Internet Explorer. The version that comes with IE 8 is 4.

The User Agent string includes the string ‘Trident/4.0′ in order to allow differentiation between the Internet Explorer 7 User Agent String and the Internet Explorer 8 User Agent string when running in Internet Explorer 7 Compatibility View.

All applications which display content based on a markup language use a layout engine. Gecko is the layout engine for Firefox, Camino, Netscape while WebKit is used in Safari & Chrome




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