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meanwhile IE 5 is alive in Wichita Kansas. Error message received today: HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)

because the old thing doesn't like URLs without a protocol:

//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js

<WSGIRequest path:/ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js/

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You sure it's actually IE5 and not a bot? Lots of bots reuse old UAs to avoid detection

This month alone, my site hat 3 visits each by IE 2 and IE 3, 14 by Firefox 1.5 and 11 by Netscape 4.0...

That's odd. what type of content does your site have ? Because it seems like those browsers would only be run by some tech savvy person doing it as an experiment.

I miss Netscape 3. I used to make lots of javascript dhtml/art on it and it had a very ghostly way of twitching.

what's the benefit of excluding the http:? I'd never seen that prior to a few years ago when the jQuery links started doing it.

It's a protocol relative link. So if the page is served over http, it'll be an http link, and if the page is served over https, it'll be an https link. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_relative_URL#Protocol-...

And it breaks unexpectedly (and sometimes hilariously) when people use it in html email, it turns into a file:// "link".

You can't have external css or js in an html email. [1] Are you talking about links? Or image tags?

[1] Well you can, but no one will fetch them.

it will reuse the protocol of the current page, think http or https or spdy or whatever comes in the future.

The browser will load the resource from whatever protocol the current page is loaded from. So if the page is on https, the URL will be accessed as https, otherwise as http.

dagga, FYI, you are hellbanned. I am not sure why, your comments look reasonable. I would email a staff member or create a new account.

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