Re: navigator.appName: why "Netscape 5.0" and not "Mozilla 0.8"?

[Gervase Markham]

> > My proposal:
> > NAVIGATOR APPNAME: Mozilla
> > VERSION: 0.8 (Windows; en-US)
> > USER AGENT : Mozilla/0.8 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; 0.8)
> > Gecko/20010215
> 
> I would love to see this also.

This would break vast swathes of (dodgy) browser detection code, rendering
large parts of the web unviewable (or viewable at Netscape 3 level) by
Mozilla.

Gerv