174211 - www.hi-fi.com.pl refuses Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Polish, defect, P3)

Description

[Gabriel Baines]

Site http://www.hi-fi.com.pl refuses to let Mozilla in, claiming that it
requires Netscape 4.0 or later.

You can still enter the site with Mozilla by going to 
http://www.hi-fi.com.pl/index1.html

Note: The problem has been originally reported on MozillaPL forum
http://mozillapl.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=874

Comment 1

[Jacek Piskozub]

Accepting.

Comment 2

[Jacek Piskozub]

Now really accepting. [It is still rahter early where I am]

Comment 3

[Jacek Piskozub]

It is not only the script that does not let Mozilla in, but also some errors in
the  JavaScript that need to be corrected.

The Search applet does not work with Mozilla (and Netscape6/7 etc.). The reason
is using of the following construction:
  document.forms('myform').
Changing it simply to 
  document.myform.
makes it work with Mozilla, IE and NN4*.

Comment 4

[Jacek Piskozub]

I sent an evangelic letter to [e-mail] and [e-mail]

Comment 5

[Jacek Piskozub]

The letter sent to [e-mail] bounced. I re-sent the letter to
[e-mail] and [e-mail] (another contact address found on
the site) 

Comment 6

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Now it does the browser check like that:

ns = (document.layers) ? 1:0
ie = (document.all) ? 1:0
moz = (document.getElementById) ? 1:0

The last parameter will be set to 1 in all modern browsers.

There's no logical explanation for why the webmaster is calling a browser
capable to perform getElementById "moz", since Konqueror, Opera and MSIE do it,
too - but who cares about the variable names. :)

So it's possible to have ie==1 && moz==1 there if you use MSIE6 :))

The text that appears if an unknown browser is found says "This website can be
only viewed in the Netscape (4.0 or newer) and Internet Explorer (4.0 or
newer)". Funny. It works in Mozilla, too. :)

The forms are still wrong, though.

Comment 7

[Jacek Piskozub]

That solves the most important problem, I believe.

And, yes. Mozilla is the basis of Netscape7 so it can be claimed to be NN4+ :-)

I mark the bug as fixed. I do not want to morph into a bug about the forms,
only. If you want, please file a new bug report about that.

Marking FIXED

Comment 8

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

V.
Website lets Mozilla in and the search form now also seems to work

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg