Apple + Netscape = Safari?

[Ricky]

Check out the following link in Safari:
http://verisign.netscape.com/advisor/check.html

It checks your browser to see what version and kind it is, as well as encryption support and such.

Safari identifies itself as Netscape Communicator 5.0. And Communicator was always a good browser.

-EDIT- More results...
MSIE 5.2.2: Internet Explorer 5
Chimera 0.6: Netscape Communicator 5
OmniWeb 4.1: Netscape Communicator 4.5

 

[btoneill]

Alot of websites will reject connections from non-supported clients, or will send different content to different clients. Many browsers will send a different name to the website so that they don't get blocked because the folks who wrote the site didn't know about their browser. For a while when it first came out IE identified itself as netscape

Brian

 

[Ricky]

Oh, okay.







I feel stupid now.

 

[Androo]

Must be because it uses the netscape gecko engine, which is the same thing in netscape...
and they never released a netscape 5 for mac, did they???

 

[dixonbm]

i'm pretty sure Safari isn't geko. I believe its khtml. Someone correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[Captain Code]

It does use the khtml rendering engine and not gecko.