"Frank J. Ramsay" wrote:
> I know this is a bit off topic, or maybe not. Heck maybe this is old
> news. But I've been playing with my IPAQ tonight and noticed this in my
> apache access.log file. (I'm using the IE that comes with WinCE to
> access these files.)
>
> 192.168.1.30 - - [07/Aug/2001:21:36:39 -0400] "GET /manual/index.html
> HTTP/1.1" 200 5557 "http://192.168.1.101/"; "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible;
> MSIE 3.02; Windows CE; 240x320)"
>
> So, if I read this right the IE on wince is mozilla, and old release
> but mozilla none the less.
>
> Anyone else ever notice this?
>
> -fjr
Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MSIE 3.02; Windows CE; 240x320)
I believe that today's common read is:
It is Internet Explorer version 3.02 and compatible to Netscape 2.0
on a Windows Operating System (no idea what "CE; 240x320" is).
I believe that in those days, when the situation was different,
the read was something like this:
It declared itself to be (spoofed/masked itself as) Netscape 2.0
and then qualified that it actually only was compatible to it and
that in reality it was IE 3.02
Now that there is an actual Mozilla 5.0 Browser
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801
Netscape in fact also finds itself declaring NS 6 to Moz 5
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726
Netscape6/6.1
I find it in MS's favor that IE 6 declares itself only compatible
to NS 4 and not to NS 6 as in:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.1)
Gus
P.S. Mozilla = Netscape
P.P.S. I hasten to add that Moz is NS but NS is not Moz.
(hope I got that right)
