298862 - demask.com [note: adult site] - Javascript warnings about incompatible browser

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

The website of DeMask, a well-known manufacturer of fetish clothing, is pretty
much incompatible with Mozilla. (http://www.demask.com; note that due to its
content, this should be treated as an adult site)

However, this is not due to problems with the actual content of the site;
rather, the site pops up literally dozens of Javascript alerts, one after
another, informing the user that their browser is not recognized and that the
site is compatible only with IE >=5.0, Opera >=5.0 and Netscape 6.0.

The website author is obviously oblivious to the fact that newer Netscape
browsers are based on Mozilla.

What makes the whole thing worse is that there's several (often more than a
dozen) of these alerts *every* time you load a new page, which makes the whole
site pretty much unusable with Mozilla unless Javascript is turned off completely.

On a related side note, the site also warns the user when blocking of
unrequested pop-ups is enabled, stating that the user "wil [sic] not be able to
take full advantage of this site".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I don't see any alerts any more, so FIXED.