Konqueror's user agent string (again)

[Roland Seuhs]

Hi!

In current CVS, Konqueror identifies as Konqueror/3.0 again, please change it 
back to Konqueror/3

If you look at browser statistics (I've found 
http://www.zyn.de/htstats/usage_200208.html#TOPAGENTS on the web as an 
example) you see that several Konqueror versions are in the statistics on 
lower ranks.

Because most sites monitor only the first 15 or 10 browsers, Konqueror doesn't 
even show up in most statistics, and with KDE .x versions coming out every 
couple of months will never have a chance to get in. Also, with KDE becoming 
more mature, people will upgrade less often, which will make it even harder 
for a single Konqueror-version to enter the top-10.

If Konqueror would only send the major version number ("Konqueror 3" instead 
of "Konqueror 3.x.y") I think it will get into a lot more browser stats and 
it will be more likely that the webmaster tests the site against Konqueror and 
not lock out Konqueror. I 
think it will also be more likely for Konqueror to get out of the 
"others"-category of the big statistics-sites like 
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
If you currently write to a webmaster about a problem on the site, the 
webmaster will most likely respond (if at all) "never heard of Konqueror" - 
But if Konqueror makes it into the top-10, the webmaster at least has heard 
of it and will be more open to complaints (like lock-out pages), even if 
he doesn't have a Unix-box to run it himself.

And this would benefit all users of Konqueror because those lock-out pages are 
the single most annoying problem of Konqueror, even with all the user-agent 
faking functionality. (At least that's my opinion)

Thanks for listening,

Roland

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