On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 10:16, Brad Kowalczyk wrote: > exactly. Why people still think they can use user agent strings to get > an accurate indication of the percentage market share for the different > browsers out there is beyond me. Unfortunately I think a lot of non > IE browsers are calling themselves IE. If I remember correctly the default > setting in Opera 7.1 is to identify itself as IE?? Not sure about Mozilla.
I think this site is quite amusing (I was poking around the LPI site): http://www.online-exams.com/ The description in their index.html: <meta name="description" content="Welcome to Online-Exams, the one-stop shop for all your online I.T. testing needs. Featuring preparatory tests for all the latest software & hardware: CheckPoint, Cisco, Citrix, CompTIA, Linux, Microsoft, MOUW, Novell, Oracle and more. Try a free practice test today!" /> If you visit this site with netscape/mozilla you will receive a message stating this: We're sorry -- this site has been built to accomodate Microsoft Internet Explorer, as approximately 96% of our customers use this browser At first I thought they had screwed their percentages and they meant to say 100%, but after checking it seems they specifically target: if(navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")!=-1) So yes this site works fine in lynx (among other non-IE browsers), I guess that is some part of the remaining 4%. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
