293935 - cbtnuggets.com - Site nowhere set IE as a requirement. After I purchased they told me that. Very inconsistent website as they use the W3C DOM, but needlessly use IE style.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[David Betz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

http://www.cbtnuggets.com/

Site nowhere set IE as a requirement.  After I purchased they told me that. 
Very inconsistent website as they use the W3C DOM, but needlessly use IE style.
 I was able to get my videos by looking at the code of the webpage and finding
the mms://WMV files which I just plugged into WMPlayer 10 and was able to play
that way.

Their website is extremely sloppily developed and it's obvious they are not
programmers or web developers at all.  They are not using anything which would
not work in Firefox.  They are using document.getElementById instead of
document.all, however the website still does not work as they are testing for
"MSIE" in the user agent.  Spoofing does not help as they are not properly
programming their website at all and their functions are improperly placed.  If
this were Java or C#, their code would not compile at all.

I highly recommend everyone publicly work to keep people from giving them money.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Purchase
2. Get ripped off
3. View source to see errors...

Actual Results:  
Errors in web browsers which respect JavaScript syntax and client-side rules. 
The website is left useless.

Expected Results:  
It should work in standards-based browsers...

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

They're using a video codec that my QuickTime doesn't seem to understand, even with Flip4Mac installed.

However, the (free) videos are at least attempting to play in both Firefox 2 and Camino trunk, which makes me think this bug, as filed, is FIXED.