[thelist] Netscape 4/5/6 - who's on first or who's down for the count?

[Lindsay Evans]

> I get a *ton* of Netscape users to my site, more than IE. Unless
> I'm reading the log
> wrong...

I think you are...

The top UA (Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; Master.com Watchdog as requested))
seems to be a robot (more info:
http://www.master.com/texis/master/app/apps.html , last paragraph)

The second UA (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)) is Internet
Explorer 6 on Windows 98.

Basically, when you are reading UA strings, the Mozilla/x.x part is usually
a load of bulldust, and the stuff you uwant usually follows it in brackets
(IE6 is Mozilla 4 compatible?, pfft...)

I'm sure there is a tutorial somewhere on the net that can explain such
things better than I, but I couldn't find anything i a quick Google, sorry.

btw. the *real* Netscape/Gecko browsers are:

83: Netscape 6.2.2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1)
Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2)
64: Netscape 4.78 (Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Win98; U))
37: Galeon 0.12.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Galeon; 0.12.1; 590848)) (I *think*
Galeon is based on Gecko...)

HTH

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 Lindsay Evans.
 Developer,
 Red Square Productions.

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