Re: FN-FORUM: Mozilla versions : problems with e-mail Tom Davies

date posted 18th August 2003 17:15

This is one of 102 messages from your e-mail system I received today.
Regards Tom Davies
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Johnston.Antix Software Limited" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Mozilla versions


>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
> > Behalf Of Nick Grimshaw
> > Sent: 18 August 2003 11:12
> > Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Mozilla versions
> > Anthony Johnston
> > > I'm in a bit of quandary about the versioning of Mozilla,
> > >
> > > there are a lot of different versions up to 5, but later
> > > versions of rv1.x.
> > >
> > > As I understand it;
> > > v5/rv1.x was built from scratch?
> > > And versions pre v5 are Oldzilla?
> >
> > I think you're confusing versions of Mozilla-the-browser
> > (currently 1.4 /
> > 1.5alpha) with
> > Mozilla-what-every-browser-pretends-it's-compatible-with.
> >
> > IIRC, Netscape 4.x announced itself as being 'Mozilla 4.0' in
> > its appName
> > string. At the time, the latest IE (maybe 3 - don't remember)
> > was crap, so
> > people started using Javascript browser detects, tailoring the spiffy
> > content to Mozilla 4 browsers (i.e. Netscape 4). When
> > Microsoft brought out
> > the next IE, they knew of the existence of all of these
> > browser detects, and
> > so put 'Mozilla 4.0 (Compatible)' into their appNames, so
> > that sites didn't
> > look worse in IE; everyone else soon followed (and this is
> > why Opera still
> > has something like 'MSIE' in its appName). This is the reason
> > why you'll
> > still hear IE6 referred to as a version 4 browser.
> >
> > The Mozilla project upped the 'compatibility version' to 5.0
> > somewhere in
> > the early Moz milestones, to indicate the better support for
> > standards in
> > their platform.
> >
> > This would be the point where I put in a rant about stupid
> > browser detection
> > code, but I'm feeling a little off-form this morning. Hope
> > this helps...
> >
> > - Nick Grimshaw
> > { if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the
> > precipitate. }
> >
>
> Ant> thanks all, browser detection is fun
>
>
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