146081 - bea.com - detects mozilla as "older version of Netscape", recommends IE 5.x

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Going to the support section of BEA's site causes a pop-up that says :

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We have detected that you are using an older version of Netscape. For best
performance, we recommend that you use Internet Explorer 5.x. If you wish to use
a Netscape browser, we recommend version 6.2.

To download the latest version of Netscape click here

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However Mozilla works great in their support section, much better than Netscape
6.2 on with their newgroup browser in fact. Hopefully the next Netscape release
will improve their attitude somewhat, but they should really not be annoying
Gecko users in this way ( as a customer I will complain directly, also about the
fact that they don't seem to support Gecko-based browsers in the administrative
console for WebLogic, but that's a different bug :)

Comment 1

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

tell them they should just check for document.getElementById to know if the
browser's crap.
Or just enable the popup blocker ;)

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

no popup in 1.0.2 and 1.2b -> wfm

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg