michael lefevre wrote: > you certainly could... it's been done: > Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 5.12 [en] > is (i think) the default for Opera 5.12
True. That's what I don't like about Opera. It's like "we can't implement DOM properly, but at least we can mess up user agents". >>at least until *that* browser catches on so much that >>some other Brand X takes that whole string and appends something >>else... > indeed. this is obviously not a good way to go - I haven't used it, but > it appears from their docs that Opera 6 actually identifies itself as > (for example) > Opera/6.0 (Windows XP; U) [en] > by default... but i could be wrong. No. "Identify as IE" is default, which is like what you mentioned first. It takes the IE string - which includes "Mozilla 4.0-compatible" and appends its own version number ("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows XP) Opera 6.01 [en]" for me). This one ("Opera/6.01 (Windows XP; U) [en]") is true though when turning on "Identify as Opera". -- Regards, Sören Kuklau ('Chucker') [EMAIL PROTECTED]