On Thu Feb 28 11:13 +1030, Anthony Symons wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 02:33, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > Leon Brooks wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 23:54, Levi Ramsey wrote:
> > >>Have you tried Opera's browser spoofing (it can masquerade as IE 5 for
> > >>Windows)?
> > Yay, thus icreasing the browsing stats for IE, and providing no 
> > motivation for sites to support standards: "Everyone accessing this site 
> > uses IE, even the users who were using wierd browsers under linux last 
> > month", and allowing people to say linux isn't used on the desktop, 
> > based on browser stats.
> 
> Yes, this is bad. Opera's default is to identify as MSIE, but it's under
> "quick preferences" to change it (F12). I run as opera 'till I need to
> fake MSIE. But, your system still shows as linux, kinda. 
> 
> User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.17 i686) Opera
> 6.0  [en]

Well, IE on any platform identifies as Mozilla/4.0.  It's a vestige of
when IE was the minority browser (back around 2.0/3.0).

But IE on Linux is kinda weird...
-- 
Levi Ramsey
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