Gervase Markham wrote:
>> isn't there a separate "quirks" mode in mozilla that is for emulating
>> netscape <= 4 for these pages? this could be changed to say "mozilla"
>> normally and do spoofing in the compatibility mode.
>
>
> Netscape 6 will say Netscape. If page authors are doing this sort of
> detecting at all, and have to cope with "IE" and "Netscape", and "Opera"
> if they bother, why should they make sure it works with a random
> development browser used by very few? This is one time we should be
> piggy-backing on Netscape's marketing clout with Netscape 6 :-) It's
> synergy.
>
Ironically, both times we added Netscape 6 checks to pogo.com, the
developer got it wrong by checking for Mozilla/6.0 rather than 5.0.
Any way you look at it, the Mozilla/5.0 is just plain funky and
wrong. It's not Netscape 5. It's not Mozilla 5. It's weird.
Sigh... we're apparently stuck with it, but it will continue
to bite developers.
Bill Lipa
