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Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE by jayferd on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @06:04PM (#3946003)
Most user-agent strings start with "Mozilla". It's a quirk from the very weird history of the user-agent string.

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

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Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE by rbanffy on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @07:34PM (#3946347)
That doesn't change the fact IE started its life by pretending to be Netscape.
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