[LINK] Everyone uses explorer

[Rick Welykochy]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Danny Yee wrote:

> Figures from my web sites disagree with this, they suggest maybe 72% IE, 28%
> Netscape.  Sites
> 	www.caa.org.au
> 	dannyreviews.com
> 	danny.oz.au
> The latter has free software advocacy stuff on it that will distort the
> figures, but I can't think of any reason Netscape users would be more
> likely to visit the Community Aid Abroad site.  It's possible analog
> (the stats software I'm using) is broken, of course.

Since I.E. has been masquerading as Mozilla since its inception,
one could claim that 99% of browsers hitting *any* site on the
web are indeed Mozilla/Netscape.

Here is the USER_AGENT from such an imposter browser:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)"

Thus, one can rightfully log this as a Mozilla browser.

If MS wishes to subvert the USER_AGENT syntax, claim to be
Mozilla and keep faking this identification, it can wear
the moniker Mozilla when stats are gathered, IMNSHO.

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