Microsoft removes Netscape support from IE; plug-in needsre- writing.

Duane Maxwell dmaxwell at san.rr.com
Fri Aug 3 07:13:27 UTC 2001


> They would be equally worthless, and I mean WORTHLESS.
> No site KNOWS what browsers access it, only what identification
> string the browsers send them.
> At least one of the browsers I use can be asked with a couple of
> mouse clicks to announce itself as any of several other browsers.
> (I haven't bothered looking to see if the others can.  Hang on,
> I _know_ two of the others can be so configured with a wee bit of code.)

You're absolutely right, of course.  Taking into account the number of
people who change their browser's identification string, I have revised my
IE share number from 90.7% to 90.69999994%.

Thanks!

-- Duane





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