229906 - msnbc.com - Trying to view Year in Pictures slide show give "Sorry. Your browser is not compatible with this interactive feature"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Michael Spertus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

Attempting to view MSNBC slideshow, such as that at
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/yip03/ refuses to display, giving a browser
incompatibility message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.msnbc.com/modules/yip03/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Browser incompatibility message. See attached screenshot

Expected Results:  
Displayed the year in pictures

Comment 1

[Michael Spertus]

Attachment: Error screen

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Confirming with Mozilla 2003122705 on mac os 10.1.5. I suspect this happens on
all platforms --> Changing OS/hardware to all/all. Also adding to
dependency-list in bug 87471.

Comment 3

[Jesiah S]

As this is already a TE I don't know if this comment helps or not.
If you change the user agent string to "Mozilla/4.04 [en] (WinNT; I; Nav)" it
works just fine.  In the file http://msnbc.msn.com/js/std.js function
writeFlashComponent2() checks if the version is >=5 and sends this error message
but on >=4 get the regular flash file.

Comment 4

[Doug Halamay]

I can confirm this problem...

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; compatible; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a)
Gecko/20040123 Firebird/0.8.0+

Comment 5

[Jesiah S]

This WFM W2K Mozilla 2004082808 and FF 0.9.3.  It seems they have changed the
script for >=4 now.

Comment 6

[Travis Chase]

Confirmed this works for me as well Resolving Fixed