142708 - webphilippines.com: javascripts only check for NS and IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

The scripts used in

http://www.webphilippines.com/v2about_us/board.html AND
http://www.webphilippines.com/v2about_us/alliances.html

do not work in Mozilla. It might be difficult because the company
policy of Web Philippines is to check sites only in Netscape and
IE, because they say that's what people use.

Someone needs to convince them about the value of making websites
that are w3c compliant.

If someone writes to them, please don't let them know that I sent
the bug report, because I work for them. :(

Comment 1

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

for me this lookes like old Dreamweaver-code

Comment 2

[Bamm Gabriana]

It is. The problem is that Web Philippines develops the websites for most
of the largest companies in the Philippines, causing a proliferation of
bad/nonstandard code in websites all over the country.

I am in no position to correct this because I only do what my superiors
tell me to do even if I do not agree with the way we make web sites. They
even criticize me for checking my sites in Mozilla, saying it's a waste
of time because people only use IE/Netscape and so our job is to make
our sites work in them.

If someone that they would listen to would point out the problem and
explain the consequences well, that would result in hundreds of the
most visited websites in the Philippines becoming standards-compliant.
Thus the importance of evangelizing this particular company.

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

this only needs the replacement of  the .js-Files to newer versions, no changes
on the website itself it to be done. Do they know, that AOL will use Mozilla in
near future? And that Netscape 6/7 _is_ Mozilla?

Comment 4

[Bamm Gabriana]

I can sneak in and replace the .js files, but I will get reprimanded for
not obeying "company standards."

They don't really care about Netscape 6/7 because their "statistics show
that our clients use IE and Netscape 4. So this is all we need to support."

Comment 5

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Mass reassigning English-Other bugs to general default assignees.

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

WFM