In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jukola
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If this is the case, then the problem could be solved easily, IMHO.
> Substitute the "5.0" with "6.1" or whatever in "Mozilla/5.0" as there
> seem to be a confusion with the similar identification of Netscape. By
> doing this there would not be any formal connection between Mozilla and
> Netscape.
In some cases it is desirable that Mozilla and Netscape 6 are recognized
as one thing. Some site authors don't care about Mozilla but care about
anything that is called "Netscape". If they only send working JavaScript
to "Netscape6", the code won't be sent to Mozilla. If they check for
"Mozilla/5" or "Gecko", Mozilla will also get the right piece of code.
Of course, the right way would be not to try to correlate the UA string
with DOM support but to sniff the existence of DOM objects themselves.
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
