Closed Bug 239645 Opened 21 years ago Closed 16 years ago

fmls.com et al, Realtor sites only work with MSIE Win

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: bryan_grant, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1 Build Identifier: All of the above sites are integral to a Realtor in the Atlanta market. MLS and Costar sites are a nationwide resource. These sites are ONLY accessible with Internet Explorer 6.2. The results are various. Costar-the login frame does not load properly. FMLS-cant get into the resoruces once one is properly logged in. GAMLS-same as FMLS FirstCLS-same as FMLS www.xceligent.com-same as FMLS www.atlcbr.com/members - cant load the members page which loads a remote Linux desktop probably using either Tarantella or VNC (not sure which). Ironically for a company which is using Linux, the page is only viewable using... you guessed it..Internet Explorer 6.x. If you could somehow get past this hurdle, I would let 2500 brokers in the Atlanta market know that they can go ahead and ditch their buggy Microsoft Windoze computers and get something else if they wanted to. I have tested and NONE of the browsers, Mozilla, Firefox, IE 5.2, Safari, Netscape, and Opera, none of these can view these sites on a Mac. It requires that I run XP in a Virtual PC. Even with a G4 and a 1GB ram, it is so slow to run these sites on teh Virtual PC, that it is useful only in an emergency. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to login. 2. All of these sites will work with you. I can help you with some of them if you want ot use my login. 3. None of them work. I think in some cases the sites are calling to the .net framework, but many of them "should" work as they are running in Java. Probably the broken version that Microsoft sent out a few years back, but I am not sure. Actual Results: Costar-the login frame does not load properly. FMLS-cant get into the resoruces once one is properly logged in. GAMLS-same as FMLS FirstCLS-same as FMLS www.xceligent.com-same as FMLS www.atlcbr.com/members - cant load the members page which loads a remote Linux desktop probably using either Tarantella or VNC (not sure which). Ironically for a company which is using Linux, the page is only viewable using... you guessed it..Internet Explorer 6.x. Expected Results: It should login and allow access to these resources that we pay tons of money to access. Our subscription to Costar is $400/month alone PER USER! I would help in anyway you require to remedy the situation. More and more, I am seeing that Microsoft is subverting browsers and thus many negative results will occur. I selected Blocker for this reason. Please help fight this. Yours, Bryan "Beau" Grant President - Brokerage Division Dargan, Woodside, & Maddox (770) 433-3243 x250
http://www.xceligent.com/ CDX Memeber Login seems as if it checks the UA and prompts: "This site is optimized to run in Internet Explorer 5.5 and above. Click the link below to download it now!" http://www.atlcbr.com/members No longer exist... http://www.gamls.com/ http://www.costar.com/ renders poorly https://www.fmls.com/ http://www.firstcls.com/ Need log-in's Bryan, A few things: Have you tried masking your UA (User Agent String)? If you are using Firefox, try http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/uawidget If your using the suite try http://xulplanet.mozdev.org/downloads/prefbar/ Both programs allow you to change your UA and just might solve your problem... I would also advise you to open a new bug for each site...
There should be separate bugs for each independent site, unless they're all run by the same company.
Severity: blocker → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Summary: None of these sites work with any browsers that exist for Mac OS/X → fmls.com et al, Realtor sites only work with MSIE Win
one issue per bug -> invalid
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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