Re : NN 6 - about detection

I use Mozilla M14, and it is recognized in my statisitics as Netscape 5

Cordially,


At 22:26 04/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>At 10:02 AM 04/04/00, you wrote:
>>Netscape 6 is being rebuilt from the ground up.  Do not expect anything
>>like the previous browsers.  Because of this, there are some problems
>>that we, as developers, should be prepared for.  Such as, many of the
>>sites I work on use browser-detects to determine whether or not the user
>>is using IE or Netscape.  This is done to optimize the layout for each
>>browser.  What happens when Netscape 6 comes out and doesn't work
>>anything like it's predecessors?  Guess I'll have to add a version
>>detect to my code as well.  Something to think about anyway.
>
>Some Mozilla people are suggesting that, when NN6 comes out, the 
>browser-detect code treat NN4 like NN3.  Along with greater compliance 
>with standards, NN6 will drop Netscape-proprietary features, so it will 
>behave a lot more like IE5 than like NN4.  Also, I expect NN4 users to 
>very quickly switch to NN6, which will make it less important to 
>accommodate NN4's foibles.
>


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