Internet Explorer for Windows CE is Mozilla!?

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

[quotation order rearranged for sanity]
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Michael Dinsmore wrote:
>>From: "Frank J. Ramsay" <fjr at marsdome.myip.org>
>>192.168.1.30 - - [07/Aug/2001:21:36:39 -0400] "GET /manual/index.html
>>HTTP/1.1" 200 5557 "http://192.168.1.101/"; "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible;
>>MSIE 3.02; Windows CE; 240x320)"
>
>>So, if I read this right the IE on wince is mozilla, and old release
>>but mozilla none the less.
>
>That's just the HTTP header and it can say whatever it wants, and it
>doesn't mean anything.  You can set Opera so it can say its IE, if
>you want (to make it compatible with some websites).

That's why the IE User-Agent includes Mozilla, in fact. A long
time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there was Mozilla, which begat
Netscape. Much time passed, then one day Microsoft noticed there was
this thing called the "Web", and, feeling left out, created its
own browser. Meanwhile, people who had already been playing
the game for a long time checked the User-Agent for Mozilla in
order to include Mozilla-specific features. So, in their typically
innovative style, Microsoft copied the User-Agent from Mozilla into
their own browser in order to fool sites into thinking their
browser was Netscape. And the rest is history...

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