Re: Mozilla surpassing IE 5.5 and IE 5?

From: Yishay Mor (yishaym_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Wed 31 Dec 2003 - 02:29:28 IST


Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

>Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
>
>>I am looking at it with Mozilla. Is it distorting reality? ;-)
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>
>Two things: 1. Mozilla may for compatbility reasons identify itself as I.E.
>and IMHO more likely, I.E. is the more popular browser.
>
Actually, if you look at the "user-agent" line of IE, it identifies
itself as - Mozilla! Why? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe to try to
fool M$-hate sites?

>Despite all the FUD that it's a Microsoft product and therefore inhernetly
>evil, it is a darn good browser.
>
That is debatable, but I don't care to debate it.

- Yishay

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