157447 - (septa) septa.org - route selction form does not submit

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Ari]

The route selection form on the right side of the main page does not submit
because there is no starting form tag when the page is viewed with mozilla. This
breaks the page pretty badly.

I think this is caused by some server-side conditional code that looks at the
user-agent string because I have seen this problem with other browsers when I
set their user-agent strings to be that of mozilla.

Comment 1

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

does this work in any other browser?

Comment 2

[Ari]

Of course.  It works with at least win and mac IE and OmniWeb. This is the site of the 
organization in charge of all mass transit in Philadelphia. They wouldn't have put up a 
site that didn't work with IE.

Comment 3

[Brant Gurganus]

I wonder how Bobby approved them.  That is sad HTML.  There are multiple HTML
elements, missing elements and problems in general.

When loaded in Internet Explorer, a different source is given that looks more
correct.

Feedback form is at http://www.septa.org/inside/website.html

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Attachment: www.septa.org as served to IE 5.5

Comment 5

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Attachment: Same as above, with a base href= tag

This version works in Gecko.  Their browser sniffing is probably horked.

Comment 6

[Ari]

They finally fixed their site.

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

->f

Comment 8

[timeless]

vrfy fixed