In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Berkheiser
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (1) Client and server side user agent detection will likely expect
> Mozilla/5.0 useragent strings to have the layout features of
> Netscape 6.00, no more, no less).
This is what the Gecko date token is for. Why would Mozilla/6.0 be
better than the date token?
> There are repercussions when authors cannot rely on the useragent version
> numbers to clearly indicate layout features. Even Mozilla .9 and above
> will suffer from being misidentified as Netscape 6 until they receive
> some type of useragent version change.
Netscape 6 identifies itself as Netscape 6 at the end of the UA string.
> (3) Mozilla 1.00 has to seperate itself from previous commercial
> releases like
> Netscape 6.00 in its useragent version number if it will have additional
> layout features over those commercial products.
See above.
> (4) We need the Netscape major version to match the Mozilla Major
> version as it always has.
The string "Mozilla" is used very loosely at the beginning of various UA
strings as a way of saying "You clueless content provider, please don't
shut me out."
> b. We need to start clearly planning what features will be available in
> each release of Mozilla.
Do you think Mozilla contirbutors want to commit themselves to a
particular schedule?
> c.
> This has probably been debated countless times,
It has.
> This is soooo confusing.
Until you have read the documentation.
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Henri Sivonen
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