On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, d.brodale wrote: > > I've been tinkering around with Analog 5.24 > a bit to weed out a few more browsers in my > local reports (OmniWeb, MSIE mods, additional > Gecko-based projects, etc.) and have now moved > on to test BROWALIAS directives to consolidate > the Browser Report as well as the summary. > > In passing the following BROWALIAS commands to > Analog for Netscape 6.x browsers, I find that > application of the commands will lead to a > sizeable difference in the summary reporting > for Netscape 6.x -- using the following list > of commands lowers Analog's count for Netscape > 6.x and raises the count for Mozilla (NN6.x > drops 834 -> 734, Mozilla rises 2852 -> 2952). > > It's all very rough at present, as I'm using > Analog-style matching and not regexp matching, > and have yet to fully consolidate matches, but > I'm struck that the count differs so much. > > Am I mistaken in keying off "Netscape6/" as > the identified for Netscape 6.x? I am still in > the process of parsing the source to Analog to > determine how the program sorts things out > internally without the aide of BROWALIAS ... > can anyone suggest whether I'm at fault or > whether Analog is over-reporting incidence of > Netscape 6.x? I'm a bit stumped at present. >
Mozilla/Netscape detection is generally horrible: but analog only counts ones with Netscape6 as Netscape 6.x, I think. What does fgrep -v " 404 " logfile | fgrep -c Netscape6 give? Should be an upper bound. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
