274776 - scoilnet.ie - Firefox disallowed from this website

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[Keith Gibbons]

Not a bug as such, the site obviously does not want anything other than MS IE

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

Kindly note that your summary and URL disagree.

http://scoilnet.ie/ gives an unadorned error message.

http://www.scoilnet.ie/ is the portal for the Eirean DES.

http://test.scoilnet.ie/ may well not be intended for use just yet, and 
needs javascript off to access it, the home page being a notice
of "Under Construction"

The URL you provide needs javascript on and 'document.all'. You can
probably get further info at 
http://www.ncte.ie/Broadband/PreparingforBroadband/

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The point of putting the top level domain in the summary is to ease tracking of
the issue, not provide a link to the problem. That's what the URL field is for.
Tech Evangelism is kinda funny like that.

See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

This bug is about contacting that site and having them remove the (rather badly
implemented) browser detection.

Comment 3

[zmanji]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041218
Firefox/1.0+

The site works fine, I went around everywhere. 

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The page that can't be accessed is http://test.scoilnet.ie/bproviders/ . Give it
a shot with IE and you'll see that they do a check for document.all, and since
Firefox's quirks-mode implementation of document.all is undetectable, it fails.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.