[EMAIL PROTECTED]">We determined that the evangelism effort to get all the sites that do poor/broken UA string parsing, to fix themselves (Arun has a doc w/ steps on how to properly parse, http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/docs/articles/find-gecko/ ) was not going to be feasible. We tried messing w/ the "mozilla" token, and got too large an influx of bugs to cope.Frankly I don't know why sites set "Mozilla/5.0" in stone, Netscape released
all manner of "Mozilla/4.xx" versions without causing problems.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Interesting thought. However, there's still some ambiguity, namely "a branch"; which branch on that date?I've elsewhere
proposed (bug 65764) that it'd be more accurate and in keeping with the spec
to do something like "Gecko/20010904.45" (45 days into a branch started Sept
4th).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">"Mozilla/5.0.9.7.+" will break too many sites unfortunately. We tried adding dots and numbers, even non-digits; all fell on their faces.Well, not "Seamonkey". That was Netscape's codename for 6.0 and has a bit of
a bad taste around here (as does this newsgroup's name). I'd still rather
make it "Mozilla/5.0.9.7+" or some variant, though.
Jud
