Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 09:38:53PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> Am Mi, 2003-09-10 um 00.42 schrieb Travis Crump:
> > Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> > > document.write(navigator.appCodeName+"<br>");
> > > document.write(navigator.appName+"<br>");
> > > document.write(navigator.appVersion+"<br>");
> > > document.write(navigator.userAgent+"<br>");
> > > </script>
> > >
> > > When I fake my browserID with mozilla via Prefbar-extension, one of the
> > > lines above gives the faked ID, while the other one _always_ says
> > > "Mozilla". Tested just on a macintosh.
>
> > Netscape 4.x's code name *is* Mozilla. That is where the name for
> > Mozilla came from...
>
> Ehhh... you missed the point. We are talking about _faking_ a
> browser-ID, so setting i.e. "Internet Explorer" in Prefbar should not
> say "Mozilla". Netscape 4 has nothing to do with this.
Guess what browser has this as browser-id:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
I guess this means that IE6 should be perfectly netscape 4 compatible,
and every discrepancy should be reported to Microsoft...
Frank
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