Jeremy M. Dolan wrote: > > First we have the Mozilla/ token, which is now decreed to be 5.0 > indefinitely. It's for compatibility, and indicates nothing.
It's not needed for compatibility. Very few sites block everything that doesn't have a Mozilla/, and most of the ones that do (at least of the ones I've been able to find) block everything that isn't Mozilla/4 (and/or MSIE), so Mozilla/5.0 get's blocked anyway. Try setting your UA string to Seamonkey/1.0 and surf. The number of sites that would block you (and doesn't block Mozilla already) is very, very low. We *can* use Seamonkey/1.0 (or whatever). We don't need the Mozilla/5.0. I'll be happy to send tech evang mails to site that would block us if we dropped Mozilla/5.0. Am I really the only person here who believes in using User-Agent correctly? Someone, anybody, if I'm not alone, please speak up! There are more sites that breaks in Moz because it doesn't support document.all than sites that would break if we dropped Mozilla/5.0. Both are against the spec, but still we evang sites with document.all but try to be compatible with sites with bad UA sniffing. > OK. I'm *really* frickin' tired of typing. Please just agree so I > don't have to post again. :) I agree with Gecko/ Token Idea 2. -- /Jonas
