Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> Daniel Veditz wrote:
>
> > If anyone remembers the endless user-agent threads I was one of
> > the folks in the forefront of the major.minor.release camp. We lost, let's
> > move on please.
>
> I didn't follow the discussion. But it discussed the "Mozilla/x.x[.x]"
> at the beginning, right? I can see possible technical reasons to use
> only 2 numbers, but that's not true in product names.
Yes, it was concerned about breaking sites with stupid user-Agent detection
by changing the format of the first part. For a short while we did try a
variation that was *almost* x.y.z and e-Trade stopped accepting Mozilla, and
that was enough to swing the battle.
As to the product name itself, the new roapmap (and bugzilla) shows versions
like mozilla 0.9.1, but the user Agent would remain Mozilla/5.0
Given sites that try to block by matching the beginning version and only the
beginning version we may want to leave "Mozilla/5.0" unchanged forever
(meaning simply "Mozilla, not IE, Communicator, Opera, etc.") and simply
change the part of the comment field where "m18" is currently.
-Dan Veditz
