David Hallowell wrote: > 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 [snip] > 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
...and even if there are a lot of browser sniffers that will block Mozilla because of this, I am almost 100% sure that it will be less sites than those that already breaks in Moz because they only check for document.all and document.layers. -- /Jonas
