153863 - a4tech.com.tw - shows blank page to all non-Microsoft browsers

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Christian Eyrich]

The index.html of this site does a 
if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Microsoft') >= 0)
without an else for non-Microsoft-Browsers and without any non-JS-code.

Starting the site with http://www.a4tech.com.tw/a4techenglish/index.html (e.g.
for english users see page source) is absolute no problem and also works in Mozilla.

Comment 1

[Rui Xu]

confirmed.

Comment 2

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Moving this to Other and treat is as Traditional Chinese site since
the site is based in Taiwan.

Comment 3

[James Phillips]

Manually following this links works fro LYNX as well, although Text users
are confronted with a disparaging <noframes> message.

Comment 4

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This site is genius. Check out the JS on their home page:

function window_onload() 
{   
     if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Microsoft') >= 0)
       {
        if (window.navigator.userLanguage  == "zh-cn") 
          {
           document.location.href="http://www.a4tech.com/tw"
          }
        else if (window.navigator.userLanguage == "zh-tw")
               {    
                 document.location.href="http://www.a4tech.com/tw"
               }
        else
           {
              document.location.href="http://www.a4tech.com/tw"
           }
        }
     //else if (navigator.appName.indexOf('Netscape') >= 0)
     //  {
      //   document.location.href= "http://www.a4tech.com.cn/a.html";
      // }
}

I swear I'm not making this up. I think people this clueless might be a lost cause.

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Site to be contacted.

Comment 6

[Eric Tsai (no more review request accepted)]

From http://www.a4tech.com->Top right Worldwide sites->Choose China or Taiwan will redirect to http://www.sfytq.com/ 
http://www.a4tech.com.tw also redirect to http://www.win2.cn, then to http://www.sfytw.com, that's see if we can find someone in a4tech.

Comment 7

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

I think we should just close this.