Mozilla Poised for Revival?

MarkedMan writes "An interesting and fairly lengthy CNET article on Mozilla and the pending 1.0 release. Kind of shallow research, making some common mistakes (Like many others, he half implies that AOL picking Mozilla as the default browser automatically puts 35 million users in the Netscape camp.) Good to see this getting some fairly mainline press."

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Cell Phones

[guinnessnwhiskey]

The next generation of cell phones, pagers, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and set-top boxes will require slimmed-down technology to access the Web, and Mozilla could model itself as the technology of choice.

So the next generation of cell phones will have 256MB RAM?

Mistakes

[Knunov]

"Kind of shallow research, making a some common mistakes..."

Yeah a it is a easy to a make a some a common mostakes.

Knunov

Here's a Good Question

[tswinzig]

In the past, Netscape browsers had Mozilla/x.x at the beginning of their user agent string. Then MSIE mimicked that in their early browsers so that sites built for Netscape would see MSIE 3.x as compatible (or whenever they started doing this). Now MSIE 6 continues this, with a user agent like:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

The new Mozilla browser, which AOL calls Netscape 6, is showing a user agent string like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)

So when the 1.0 version is released, are they really going to follow that same trend? Or will they use the user agent I propose here:

Mozilla/1.0 (No, really, this is Mozilla 1.0, not Netscape or shitty old MSIE pretending to be Mozilla.)

And just imagine when we get to Mozilla 4.0:

Mozilla/4.0 (No, not Netscape 4.x or MSIE 6.x, this is truly Mozilla 4.0... PLEASE, YOU MUST BELIEVE ME!)