166287 - Oracle Application Suite disallows Mozilla use

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[hedrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

This is one you probably can't fix, but I'd like you to know that some
consciousness raising is needed with Oracle. The Oracle Application Suite is
used by the Rutgers administrative systems for doing online purchasing.  It and
SAP are  the two major products for large companies automating their internal
business processes.  Currently this product work with NS 4.79 but not Mozilla
(or NS 6/7). The application has code that explicitly checks the browser, and
does not recognize anything other than IE and NS 4. However even if it
recognized Mozilla, it couldn't be treated as NS 4, because the Oracle code
depends upon Netscape extensions that are no longer present in Mozilla.  Oracle
needs to assume a standard Javascript with no extensions if it doesn't recognize
the browser.  This is going to require some campaigning.  We've tried pushing
from our end, but Oracle doesn't seem to care about anything other than IE these
days (a very odd attitude given Oracle's relationship with Microsoft).


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Greg K.]

[e-mail], the correct Product for such bugs is Tech Evangelism.

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

hedrick, can you give us more information on what version of the oracle app
suite your school is using? Can you send us contact information at your school
or complain to oracle?

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Shouldn't this be platform All/All instead of Mac/OSX?

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

hedrick: can you give us any information on the version of oracle's app suite
rutgers is using?

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

No response from reporter for 3 months. Resolving Invalid.