Question

Based on the w3schools site: "There is no public standard that applies to the navigator object, but all major browsers support it.".

I somehow see the navigator object as rather important, and with the rate at which browsers change their versions today even more so. So it rather baffles me that there is no standard for it.

What baffles me even more is that none of the browsers seem to have come up with the idea to include the two most important properties into this object:

navigator.browserName
navigator.browserVersion

We all have to parse the darn navigator.userAgent and hope from version to version that stuff in there did not change too much. Like it just did in IE11 for example...

How can one even write a W3C proposal for a new standard?

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Solution

Thanks to @Alohci and some more digging, since the Navigator object has a standard, the way to go about proposing a change to it is to send an email to the public-html@w3.org

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