Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> Am Mo, 2003-09-08 um 02.12 schrieb Roberto Sanchez:
>
> > How else would they ID a browser?  The site I have personally had problems with
> > (I've posted about it here a few times already) apparently identifies the
> > browser with some really slick trick, since it goes out as hidden data in the
> > POST for the login.
>
>
> Untested Code from my archives:
>
> <script>
> 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.
>
> Bye, Ratti

Netscape 4.x's code name *is* Mozilla.  That is where the name for 
Mozilla came from...

The other way to do a browser check[actually the 'proper' way] is to 
check whether the browser supports document.layers or document.all or 
some other [obsolete] capability that you plan on using.

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