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

Alan Knight knight at acm.org
Fri Aug 3 12:13:24 UTC 2001


I believe that by default Opera 5 identifies itself as IE.

At 12:13 AM 8/3/2001 -0700, Duane Maxwell wrote:
> > 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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