why does it say mozilla?

[dumpringz]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

pardon me if this question may or may not matter to anything in regards to my phone .. but i notice when i post or respond to a thread on my phone it says this underneath -- wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380) ... what does that mean ? also whats mozilla ? i tried looking it up but nothing useful comes up

edit-i found something about opera spoofing the user agent string, just doesnt give reason. i use opera & to see mozilla was just making me curious. if all it is is what i found i suppose its doing no harm?

[bkrodgers]

Nearly every browser has Mozilla in the user agent. Mozilla was the code name for Netscape. Back when that was the dominant browser and a lot of browser features were not standard, sites were coding to look for Mozilla in the user agent string to enable proprietary features. Once other browsers (like IE) had those features implemented too, they started calling themselves Mozilla in the user agent to spoof web sites into providing "Netscape only" content to IE users. As to why after all these years that little hack remains, I couldn't tell you...

Long story short -- don't worry about it!

[dumpringz]

thanks