Re: whats missing from mozilla?

[Tim Koogle]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> For a start, the User Agent is not the UI. Secondly:
> 
> http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/view.cgi?url=www.mozilla.org&verbose=on 
> 
> 
> shows you the user agent doesn't contain Netscape. Or is the appName 
> something different again?


appName is a Javaschit variable used by websites (banks, mostly) who 
don't trust the HTTP User Agent string, but can't be bothered/don't 
want/are technically unable to support Mozilla.
Mozilla returns the value "Netscape".