From kfm-devel  Sat Aug 17 19:15:24 2002
From: Roland Seuhs <roland () hasos ! com>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:15:24 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Konqueror's user agent string (again)
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Am Samstag, 17. August 2002 19:00 schrieb Dawit A.:

> If you also bothered to look at the stats on the link provided, you wil=
l
> see that NONE and I mean NONE of the other browsers send only the major
> version # !!!!!!
>  Why do we need to be different ?=20

The Mozilla-project sends the same version (Mozilla 5.0) along since the=20
project exists, for a couple of years now.

Also, MSIE only changes browser strings about once a year and does not sh=
ow=20
any service-packs (which would be the equivalent of minor versions)

> The statistics seems to
> be counted correctly for the other browsers that provide both the major=
 and
> minor version numbers...

Well, that's not true because Konqueror get's counted as "Netscape", so d=
oes=20
Mozilla, Opera, Galeon and every other browser that is "Mozilla - compati=
ble"=20
except Internet Explorer, which is the only one to get an own platform=20
grouping.

I tried to talk to the author of webalizer but he refused to put any non-=
MSIE=20
browsers into the platform groupings section, so it continues to be count=
ed=20
as Netscape. Of course not everybody uses platform groupings so even with=
 a=20
correct Konqueror platform grouping I think the user agent string should =
not=20
change too often.

Roland

--=20
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