Jonas J�rgensen wrote: > > We *can* use Seamonkey/1.0 (or whatever). We don't need the > Mozilla/5.0. I'll be happy to send tech evang mails to site that > would block us if we dropped Mozilla/5.0. > I want to see the user agent used properly and also believe it must be a minority of browser sniffers that'll break if Mozilla is anything but 5.0
People keep talking about breaking current browser sniffers, but the current scheme just encourages bad practices, as Netscape 6.x is the most well known Mozilla derivative there's some sites that sniff the version number from the Netscape6/6.xx bit of the useragent and the browser sniffing fails for any other Moz derivative. We need to keep the version number of the useragent field updated, whether that's by incrementing Mozilla/5.x or it's by scrapping it completely and replacing it with Seamonkey/x.x then it doesn't really matter to me, although I do advocate sticking to Mozilla. Mozilla/5.1 could correspond to 1.0 Mozilla/5.098 could correspond to 0.9.8 I don't believe any of the arguments that changing the 5.0 to anything else will break things majorly, Most sniffers that look for Mozilla/version will be looking for it to determine the version of Netscape used, so will see Mozilla/5.0 as Netscape 5 and will see Mozilla/5.1 as Netscape 5.1
