Op do 28-02-2002, om 02:55 schreef Levi Ramsey: > 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...
IE5 did run (somewhat) in wine, and there was/is a version for solaris and hpux IIRC
