Glenn Miller wrote: > Some drink from the Fountain of Knowledge; and yet the Tree of Life is also > the choice of some. However, on 08 Jan 2002, Jonas J�rgensen (amongst > others) drank deeply from netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey and the > following inspired literary work resulted: > >> Suddenly I'm in love with the word Seamonkey. :-) >> >> As you said, Jeremy, "Netscape used their code name for the token... >> only fitting Mozilla uses its code name". What do you think, everyone? >> Mozilla could be the browser to finally and all of this madness with >> browsers using "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ..." instead of their real >> name. And ironically, it would do it by /not/ using it's real name! ;-) > > Um, if the important thing concerning the correct displaying of websites is > determining which rendering engine is being used, then why not use "Gekko > 1.0" as the ID token? > > I mean, that IS what websites are wanting to know, isn't it?
Probably. But that's not what User-Agent is meant for. It is meant for showing the name and version of the program that makes the request for the server. Just like the server sends back a Server: header saying whether it's Apache, IIS or whatever. -- /Jonas
