MCBastos wrote:

>> 5) Therefore I wish to modify the User Agent string to contain the phrase
>>      "Firefox/6.0.2 compatible" rather than just "Firefox/6.0.2" as
>>              currently occurs.
>
> You might wish to reconsider that particular string; it has been pointed
> out, in a different thread, that many browser-sniffing scripts consider
> the presence of the word "compatible" as proof positive that you are
> using Internet Explorer -- and therefore start serving you pages tweaked
> to fit the IE rendering bugs.
>
> Many users have been using "NOT Firefox/6.0.2" or similar constructs
> with reasonable success.

I'm not irrevocably wedded to the exact wording; rather, it is the
existence (or otherwise) of a clean mechanism for defining the
User Agent string that I am attempting to elucidate ...

Philip Taylor
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