319717 - wirelessdigest.typepad.com - Referral script from sublimemedia.net uses bad user-agent detection [error message upon first load of one particular blog]

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Mitch Slater]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Camino/1.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Camino/1.0b1

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/shinyshiny/

document.links[i].attachEvent is not a function
undefined

The above message appears when first loading this page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to url
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Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I see this as well and don't see it in today's Fx nightly.

Confirming...

Comment 2

[Wevah (Nate Weaver)]

This is due to bad user-agent detection in the script from sublimemedia.net. The offending lines:

	if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")==-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")==-1)
	{
		hookOnload(attachEventToObject);
	}else
	{
		hookOnload(attachEventToObjectFF);	
	}

"Firefox" should probably be changed to "Gecko" or something, though a capabilities-based rather than user-agent-based approach would be much better.

-> Tech Evangelism

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Er, presumably the blocks was really meant to be bug 334967.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.