134431 - sharpelectronics.com - upgrade your browser to 4.x or ie

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Sander]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

The following script is used on the homepage:
<script>
//BROWSER DETECTION for 3
var threeNum = navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1)
if (parseInt(threeNum) < 4) { 
        location.pathname = "/browser.html";
} 
</script>

and can be found in /navscript.js on most (all?) other pages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit sharpelectronics.com


Actual Results:  You are redirected to a page that tells you to use IE or NS 4.x

Expected Results:  Being able to browse the site

Several javascript menus also exist on the site. I figure there's a very good
chance they only use document.layers and document.all but haven't really looked
into it.
*chuckles* And this while a lot of peopel are now visiting the site because
sharp just released its linux based PDA. (
http://sharpelectronics.com/products/TypeLanding/0,1056,112,00.html ) Guess
they're turning away an awful lot of potential customers for that thing.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

*** Bug 134434 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

confirming

Comment 3

[Danny]

See bug 63915. Dup?

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

marking depends on 63915, since we can't assure that fixing one sharp site will
fix this

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

tidying up duplication data

Comment 6

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

no more deny.