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by olliej 2157 days ago
When safari 2.0.4 was first released huge numbers of websites broke simply because they detected Netscape 4 by doing navigator.useragent.indexif(“4”)>0

Never underestimate the ability of developer hacks to screw things for years.

Many releases after had a lot of paranoia about including the character 4 in the version number