198690 - Misleading "IE only" message in History of the Internet at desine.net

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Damian Yerrick]

Desine.net's Internet history pages at
http://www.desine.net/resume/portfolio/history/ carry a misleading message
stating that IE 5.x and higher are the only web browsers that conform well
to W3C guidelines.  This has been untrue since at least the release of
Mozilla 1.0.

    This site was built using HTML, Javascript and CSS specifications
    that work best in Internet Explorer 5 or above. If you use any other
    browser, this site will not work as intended, as other browsers
    do not fully support the HTML 4 specifications as set forth the
    World Wide Web consortium [w3.org].

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla 1.3 on Windows 2000.
2. Go to http://www.desine.net/resume/portfolio/history/
3. Click 'enter'.

Actual result:
A warning page with misleading title "IE Only" appears, but the site
lets me in anyway without any spoofing and works fine.

Expected result:
No IE-only message.

I guessed the component based on the TLD.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

This is not a bug of Mozilla's. It's the site that says IE is the only browser
supporting w3c standards. Please contact the website administrator and ask him
to correct the message.

Marking INVALID.

Comment 2

[Damian Yerrick]

I guess I'm confused as to the purpose of the "Tech Evangelism" component.
I thought "Tech Evangelism" was all about contacting web site administrators
and getting them to fix IE-only sites.  From
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/ :

  Members of the Mozilla Technology Evangelism community ... locate contact
  information for the site or product's authors

I posted the bug here instead of writing in desine.net's web form because I
couldn't easily find a contact method (e-mail, web form, IM, etc) for that
particular part of the site.  I was afraid to use the form for all of
desine.net because I wasn't sure it was the right form, and I didn't want
to be accused of wasting somebody's time and violating etiquette by using
the wrong form.  Others working in Bugzilla have proven better than I am
at finding such contact methods.

What misconception do I have?

Comment 3

[Susie Wyshak]

The same message is served in IE6. That site has bigger problems than not
supporting Mozilla.