On Sun, Aug 10, 2003, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: > exactly. Why people still think they can use user agent strings to get > an accurate indication of the percentage market share for the > different browsers out there is beyond me. Unfortunately I think a lot > of non IE browsers are calling themselves IE. If I remember correctly > the default setting in Opera 7.1 is to identify itself as IE?? Not > sure about Mozilla.
Not by default, nor does any other Gecko browser I've used (Galeon, Epiphany) do this. There's a Mozilla Evangelism sidebar somewhere that makes it easy to change the User-Agent string if you want to. (Since the Evangelism folks are behind it, I suspect the aim is to be able to mail people and say "Mozilla can render your site if it pretends it is IE, so why not drop the browser check?") -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
