236027 - weezyek.topcities.com - Requires IE version 4 or better

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Charles Sokolik]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630

http://weezyek.topcities.com/musicindex.html ,, this site requires IE version 4
or better to open. It will lock you to the page causing you to use xkill or in
windows using MOZILLA 1.6 use " End task " ,, the 3 finger salute. info window
opens locking you to the page

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the web site ,,http://weezyek.topcities.com/musicindex.html
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Page wont open and page freeze ? 


Expected Results:  
Open the page

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

-> TE

Comment 2

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

Egads... that is one of the most convoluted uses of Javascript that I've seen. 
In my opinion, things like that ought to be discouraged, if only because of the
*major* accessibility issues of 'encrypting' a site using Javascript.

And why do I put 'encrypting' in quotes?  Because it can easily be *decrypted*
using what Javascript is already there, just by swapping out eval() with
document.write(), lathering, rinsing, and repeating.

Decrypting the script in such a manner shows that it specifically checks for
"Netscape" in the browser string if it's discovered to be a Gecko browser.  It
works in NS6/7, in other words, but not in any other Gecko-based browser.

Comment 3

[Cody 'codeman38' Boisclair]

Attachment: The 'decrypted' source of weezye's site

And it's STILL convoluted!

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

fixed