RE: Browsers - mozilla & netscape?

by "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis(at)hotmail.com>

Date:	Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:54:59 GMT
To:	RJP(at)clickdms.com, drakaina(at)oion.net, hwg-techniques-digest(at)mail.hwg.org
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>Mozilla was the code name for netscap. it came befer IE, and M$ took
>Mozilla and used it too. so Mozilla is sort of a standard for browser
>names when it comes to detection. or something like that.

I think of it as the name of the code engine that's inside the browser.

i read about
>it a while ago. maybe it was the military name for the net, before it
>became public. Mozilla 4 is Netscape 4. or something like that. didnt
>help much did i? oh well...

I heard it was a concatenation of 'Mosaic' and 'Godzilla', the message being 
that Mozilla is hugely better than Mosaic (this was in the time that 
Netscape 1 was the latest and fastest, of course).

>  1433: MSIE 5
>  1336: Mozilla 4
>   376: MSIE 4
>   203: Mozilla 4.5
>   103: Mozilla 2
>    73: Netscape (compatible)
>    27: Mozilla 3
>     8: Slurp
>
>Ummm, I always thought Mozilla and Netscape were essentially the same
>thing? Am I wrong here? And.... What the heck is Slurp?

Slurp is a robot and Netscape (compatible) probably means a

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; etc.etc.)

which means a browser that is NOT Netscape but roughly at Netscape 4 level. 
IE and Opera have 'compatible' in their browser string, for instance.

ppk
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