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  From: Barney Wrightson <barney.wrightson@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:49:21 +0930

Re: navigator.appName

Andrew Lord wrote:
<snip>
> with Galeon and Mozilla reporting themselves as Netscape through appName, 
> when they evolve to version 4 then anyone using those browsers will find 
> themselves on the (inferior) Netscape/IE 4 page.  Obviously that's going to 
> be a while away so I'm probably worrying about nothing  . . . by the time 
> Galeon & Mozilla get up to versions 4, my JavaScript skills will have evolved 
> to navigate the problem! ;-)

Hi Andrew (and others interested),
	Check out this URL for an in-depth (long) article on cross browser 
support, I haven't personally tried following it or read it completely, 
yet, but first impressions were that it was a reasonable guide to doing 
things "The Right Way" or at least a consistent logical way, considering 
the lack of standards compliance that is current:

http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/browser-detection/

cheers,
	Barney

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