Release-version in UserAgent?

[David Faure]

On Saturday 27 November 2004 23:43, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I was about to write an email to google announcing gmail support in Konqueror 
> 3.3.2 when it occured to me that currently you cannot currently detect the 
> difference beween 3.3.1 and 3.3.2.
> 
> I suggest that for 3.3.2 or 3.4, we do like the other browsers and insert 
> rendering-engine/version:
> Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) KHTML/3.3.2  (like Gecko)

Makes sense.

> For KDE 3.4 or KDE 4 I would suggest doing an Opera and skip the obsolete 
> Mozilla compatible this and that. It would be simply:
> Konqueror/3.4 (KDE; U; Linux; en-US) KHTML/3.4.0 (like Gecko)
Makes no sense. Starting with "Mozilla/<major number>" is a standard now,
even IE does it, and lots of websites check for it. It doesn't really mean Mozilla anymore,
it's just the way to specify the "major version number of the browser" (on
a scale that is more or less common between all browsers). The above would
regress konqueror to "not even IE4 or IE5 compatible" because of the "3.4".

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).