227531 - Lawmaker's site requires VBScript to get off the front page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Thomas Thurman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031109 Firebird/0.7+

Chris Bryant, a Member of Parliament (==lawmaker) for the Rhondda area in Wales,
has a website whose front page, http://www.chrisbryantmp.co.uk/ , contains
nothing but a snippet of VBScript to detect Flash and load a different page
accordingly:

<script Language="VBScript">
 <!--
    on error resume next
    var GotFlash
    GotFlash = IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3"))
    If GotFlash = True Then
      Window.Location.href= "intro.htm"
   Else
      Window.Location.href= "home.htm"
   End If
 // -->
</script>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Go to http://www.chrisbryantmp.co.uk/
Actual Results:  
Big white empty screen.

Expected Results:  
Should end up at http://www.chrisbryantmp.co.uk/home.htm .

Looks like you're out of luck if you live in the Rhondda and want to read about
your elected representative using free software.

Comment 1

[Craig Clawson]

Although the pages have changed, this is still an issue. His new page is entirely in Adobe Flash.

http://www.chrisbryantmp.com/

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Site is now at

http://www.chrisbryant.co.uk

where I see no VBScript whatsoever in the page source.

Since this was indeed an issue at one point and should have been confirmed, marking FIXED by site redesign.