[OU] Identification problem

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Bessenyei,


Tks for your detail advice.

> "It always displays;
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; en)
> 
> Not as IE."
> 
> I see no problem here, that is exactly the the Browser Identification
>  
> string of IE 6.0 It has some histroical reason, there was a time when
>  
> Netscape (Mozila) 4, was more advanced in terms of features than IE.
> So  
> some websites started to check whether they dealing with the advanced
>  
> mozilla or the lame ie. After MS added the features those sites still
>  
> didn't work. So they decided that they claim themself to be mozilla  
> compatible.

Noted with tks.


> Unfortunatly nowdays, some sites are useing scripts to identificate  
> browsers. The scripts are checking features unique to that browser or
>  
> works differently in that browser than in others. 

For what reason they add the script checking the features of browser? 
Is this MS tactic to exclude other browsers making IE the only emperor
on the Earth?


> In this case
> changing  
> the browser identification string won't fool the site. Of course user
> java  
> scripts can eliminate that checking to.

Could you please explain in more detail?  Tks.  I don't expect going
back to MS Windows only for visiting some sites.


I tried IEs4Linux, not very promising.  I just upgraded "wine" in
running "apt-get".  The top bar disappears, including the address box. 
I have no way to browse except its homepage.


B.R.
Stephen

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