235039 - rmb.co.za wants viewers to downgrade to NS4 just to view the site

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8

The web site for Rand Merchant Bank in South Africa claims to be "Optimised for
Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape Navigator 4.7 or above at a resolution of 800x600".

"Optimised" is an understatement; the Javascript used on the splash page only
allows you to proceed if your browser supports document.layers or document.all!

(For the record, this site was featured as the Daily Sucker at
webpagesthatsuck.com today, but with only a cursory mention of this heinous
Javascript incompatibility...)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log on to http://www.rmb.co.za/
2. Click on the "click to launch content tool" button.
3. Keep clicking and watch as absolutely nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Absolutely nothing.

Expected Results:  
A window opens with the bank's main site.

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

Probably because they're serving up their javascript file
(http://www.rmb.co.za/web/rmb/webspace.nsf/system/home.js) as text/html. That
should be really easy to fix, if someone can just find out how to contact them.

Comment 2

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

It's more than just the bad MIME type... The script in question checks for
document.getElementById and then does absolutely nothing upon discovering its
existence. It only opens a window if document.all or document.layers are defined.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed