221419 - ca.com - This site requires Explorer 4.0 or above. It reports Mozilla as Netscape 5 and refuses to load the whole window. Is this fixable or should I just switch to Exploer to view this sort of page (which is a pain).

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, enhancement)

Description

[Arthur Lubenfeld]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Expects Explorer 4.0. Is there a possibililty of compatability.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.try to load page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Control failed to load. Are you using Internet Explorer 4.0 or above?

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The site is using IE's proprietary ActiveX API, which we do not have any plans
to support.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

This website uses ActiveX controls, which aren't supported in Mozilla, because
that's a cross-platform browser. This website will *only* work in Internet
Explorer on Windows, and nothing else. No Mac, no Linux, ... That's why they
display the warning !

On the bright side, you can find an Active-X plugin at
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm , which might help you to run
ActiveX controls (it can be used to run Windows Media Player for example). This
is the same one as included in Netscape 7.1. But I guess you will still see the
warning, since the website will still detect that you're not using Exploder.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

seems to be fixed