Dan Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > So, in order to reconcile the need to provide accurate statistics, > hoping to encourage more sites to become multi-browser accessible, with > the practical need to gain access to those sites now, is there any hope > of signalling to the server that a user is entering in disguise? I.e., > instead of approaching as "IE5," can a user be identified as "Mozilla > masquerading as IE5" or even "Other masquerading as IE5"? It's only
That's actually the approach that browser makers have been taking most of the time when they design their user-agent strings... it's gone on for several "generations", which is why many browsers have such convoluted strings with multiple misleading names in them, like: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; WhizBangBrowser 1.12b) which is WhizBangBrowser 1.12b pretending to be MSIE 5.0 pretending to be Netscapre 4.0. I guess you could take this one generation further by taking one of those strings and appending yet another browser name, maybe off to the right side after the right parenthesis, that would be the *real* browser name, at least until *that* browser catches on so much that some other Brand X takes that whole string and appends something else... -- Dan
