217202 - MRW.es - Bad browser sniffing does not allow to access several pages.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Spanish, defect)

Description

[sysifus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

MRW is one of the most famous companies of transport in Spain. 
In several pages a client-side-script is used to write the code of a frameset.
Among other errors, the script executes an absurd browser sniffing that checks
if browser version is 4 or 5. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to MRW site: http://www.mrw.es
2. Click the "Servicios nacionales" link.
(Other links are afected too: Servicios internacionales, Acción social,
comunicación, servicios, planes de ayuda.

Actual Results:  
An empty page (except for a background). 

Expected Results:  
A page with content, of course.

Comment 1

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

confirmed

Comment 2

[sysifus]

There are more problems. Some of them are listed below:
 - Obsolete browser sniffing.
 - Incorrect objects reference (use of element names instead of standard
references).  
 - Bad use of CSS values (no units).
 - Incomplete scripts (Although the initial browser-sniffing tries to identify a
superior version of Netscape, the rest of the scripts does not provide
gecko-compatible code).
 - Ilegal nesting of HTML elements.
 - And more...

In addition to these details, there are other problems that cause a poor
accessibility level. For example the lack of attributes alt in the IMG elements.

Although there is no address in the page, I will try to contact at [e-mail]

Comment 3

[sysifus]

Attachment: T.E. letter

Sent to [e-mail] (address not confirmed)

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

sysifus, when you contact the site please set the milestone for a month in the
future and mark the bug assigned so we can track who has been contacted and when
they should be followed up. If your letter bounces or whatever, you can try
again or reset by removing the milestone and reassigning to the default owner.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This site is horribly ugly, but it at least works now, in both Camino-trunk and Firefox 2. Fixed?

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.