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    Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
-Tablet:
+Tablet (touch screen device):
    Mozilla/5.0 (Tablet; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
+Netbook (or tablet with attached keyboard):
+  Mozilla/5.0 (XXX; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
+-- What do we put in the platform token when we want to say "like a desktop"? Do we just use the desktop UA, and bring back OS/platform information at this point? That seems to go against various bits of rationale...
 (Examples are for Firefox 12; clearly, 12.0 would change for later versions.)
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 ===Gecko Date===
-Should we take the opportunity to remove the Gecko date entirely (i.e. reduce to "Gecko/")? Or should we deal with that as a separate operation, co-ordinated across desktop and mobile? We have [http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/final-user-agent-string-for-firefox-4/ warned people we are going to do this], but is now the time?
+Should we take the opportunity to remove the Gecko date entirely (i.e. reduce to "Gecko/0" - as having <u>something</u> after the / is required by the HTTP spec)? Or should we deal with that as a separate operation, co-ordinated across desktop and mobile? We have [http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/final-user-agent-string-for-firefox-4/ warned people we are going to do this], but is now the time? Perhaps we should do it now on mobile, but wait a bit on desktop.