Closed Bug 169487 Opened 22 years ago Closed 18 years ago

WSJ.com - detects N6 only so DHTML broken

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: hyatt, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: top500) 

The DHTML of wsj.com is broken in any Gecko browser other than Netscape 6
because of a bad user agent check in this file:

http://online.wsj.com/navigation.js

They check navigator.userAgent for "Netscape6"... totally bogus way to check for
Gecko... moreover, their IE branch should work just fine with Gecko... it uses
offsetParent/Left/Top, but we support that.
Note that Netscape 7 doesn't work, so this is important.

I will contact them.

Once you log in can you get to the major sections which you currently can't
access? Like if you click Technology can you get to the Commerce section once
you log in?
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Summary: Wall Street Journal's DHTML broken → WSJ detects N6 only so DHTML broken
Whiteboard: evang500
Keywords: evang500
still borken
Summary: WSJ detects N6 only so DHTML broken → WSJ.com - detects N6 only so DHTML broken
still not fixed.
Assignee: susiew → english-us
URL: www.wsj.com → http://www.wsj.com
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
QA Contact: zach → english-us
Whiteboard: evang500
Keywords: top500
navigation.js now seems to also look for NS7.0 and Gecko.  fixed?
yep, works in today's bon echo on windows. Wow! Opened: 2002-09-18 10:34 PDT, Evangelism ancient history!
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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