Changing these things broke far too many sites that made bad assumptions. Is
it the site's fault? Yes, but it's not worth the fight on this issue. Please
read a couple years worth of arguments about this over in the .netlib group.
-Dan Veditz
Carcarlo wrote:
>
> Analizing the server logs I found Netscape 5 many times. I asked
> myself where it comes form, since version 5 has never been released,
> as far as I know.
>
> But today I find the answer: Mozilla is referred as Netscape 5.
> Why?
> I think it would be more correct to call it "Mozilla 0.8".
>
> Now is:
> NAVIGATOR APPNAME: Netscape
> VERSION: 5.0 (Windows; en-US)
> USER AGENT : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8)
> Gecko/20010215
>
> My proposal:
> NAVIGATOR APPNAME: Mozilla
> VERSION: 0.8 (Windows; en-US)
> USER AGENT : Mozilla/0.8 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8)
> Gecko/20010215
>
> I'll be glad to read your opinion about it.
>
> Bye,
>
> Carcarlo, Firenze
