125240 - ottoandiris.com - Site begins by running Javascript, says unsupported browser

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Steven Neil Groginsky]

Site begins by running Javascript, says unsupported browser.

I see a whole page full of Javascript with no HTML.  This is the displayed text:

 Sorry! You cannot view the main Otto & Iris experience.

OttoAndIris.com requires Internet Explorer version 4.0 (or higher), Netscape
version 4.06 (or higher), or a version of AOL 3.0 (or higher) that incorporates
Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.

Also, we do not currently support Netscape 6.0.

Please accept our apologies! We hope you can visit us again soon with a
different browser.

Maybe I made a mistake and Moz is the same as Netscape 6.0.  The javascript and
why they don't support Netscape 6.0 may be interesting, though,  Feel free to
invalidate this bug if you're not interested.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Biallas]

--> Tech. Evang.
Mozilla (and Mozilla Developers) can do nothing about being rejected.

Comment 2

[Cameron Simpson]

It would be VERY handy to be able to set a per-site User-Agent string.
Plenty of places (my pet peeve is my internet banking facility)
do a per-browser-ok check instead of a per-browser-not-ok check.
Being able to lie to such sites (especially with a short like of standard
User-Agent strings for particular browsers) would be very useful when Mozilla
has the function but the site doesn't believe it.

Comment 3

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

Cameron: the "general.useragent.override" pref still works I believe.

Comment 4

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

Oops, just noticed your per-site comment.

Comment 5

[Sebastian Biallas]

Cameron: http://uabar.mozdev.org is you friend (also there's also no per site
definition)

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

domain grabber