122170 - tripedal.com - doesn't recognize Mozilla.org builds as functionally equivalent to Netscape 6.x commercial builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Damian Yerrick]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020123
BuildID:    2002012304
(I'll upgrade when mozillaZine gets its act together and links the
Windows button to an actual Windows build rather than a Linux build.)

I go to http://www.tripedal.com/, and it doesn't recognize Mozilla
as a 6.x functional level browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit the URL http://www.tripedal.com/


Actual Results:  JS alert:
  Netscape Navigator 3.x 4.x or 5.x detected
  Tripedal uses extensive DHTML | FLASH | XML
  Upgrade your browser!
and doesn't let me into the site

Expected Results:  Redirect to
http://www.tripedal.com/StaticPages/TheNewList/links10.htm  like IE does

I looked in the JS sniffer code, and I found the following disregard
for the diversity of web browsers:
"Hasn't been tested on a Mac" but lets the users in anyway
"Hasn't been tested on UNIX" and doesn't let the users in

This page makes Bobby cry.

Tripedal may not be in the US, but I had to give it a component
within evangelism.

Comment 1

[Frankie]

Contact address is [e-mail]

The layout degrades quite badly in any browser that sets a minimum font size
larger than their specified CSS.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

The DNS no longer resolves; FIXED by disappearance of site.