[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Clark) wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I thought this was very interesting. When goint to the "About > Netscape 6" page from the Help menu in Netscape 6.2, it says > > Netscape 6.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) > > Did Netscape put this in to prevent companies like Microsoft from > blocking browsers based on their UserAgent string? Or, is the real > UserAgent string something else, and this is just what they wrote in > "About" page. I guess the reason : many (not very well coded) sites consider the client has Netscape 4.x when it is not IE. But Netscape 6 / Mozilla has get rid off some particularities of Netscape 4.x to adopt W3C standards (Layer was dropped for iframes). On such sites, the page doesn't work but if you try it pretending you are IE, it works !! This is just a hypothesis. -- Le Vintz. http://membres.tripod.fr/vnicolas/
