Closed Bug 304223 Opened 19 years ago Closed 10 years ago

my.yahoo.com - Incorrect layout and search box (bad UA sniffing - doesn't handle camino)

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: adobson5, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2

Most of the page renders correctly. The search box at the top, search button,
page selection menu, and search selection buttons are incorrectly rendered. 

Firefox and Mozilla both render the page correctly, so it doesn't appear to be
related to the common Gecko engine. 

Reproducible: Always
I see this too, although when I tried agent spoofing as Safari, it renders
correctly!  Why they do this, I don't know, but it's the same deal with a Yahoo
profile like http://profiles.yahoo.com/blah - renders horribly in Camino, but
when you agent spoof as Safari or something else, it renders fine!  I've emailed
them abou this a while ago, too...
Confirming...

-> Evangelism
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Page Layout → English US
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Camino → Tech Evangelism
This is an error only for Camino. DP/FF render fine.
Assignee: pinkerton → english-us
QA Contact: english-us
Summary: Incorrect layout and search box → yahoo.com - Incorrect layout and search box (bas UA sniffing - doesn't handle camino)
I sent them an email complaining about this a few weeks ago, and the response I got back basically said to upgrade to a better browser like Netscape 6 or IE 5.  I sent a response back saying that didn't address the problem, and could they send the email on to someone who understands the situation, but never got a response.
Fix a typo, that's all....
Summary: yahoo.com - Incorrect layout and search box (bas UA sniffing - doesn't handle camino) → yahoo.com - Incorrect layout and search box (bad UA sniffing - doesn't handle camino)
Reported to My Yahoo.
I'd like to confirm this as well (glad I wasn't the only one that's bugged by it).

As of today it's still not rendering correctly.  Wonder if Jeremy heard anything back from the My Yahoo team...
This renders fine for me now, spoofing as Camino.

Regardless, we have no idea whether it's UA sniffing, object sniffing or what which is going wrong. I think it's unfair to link this to the bug for collecting "Firefox-sniffing" problems.

Gerv
No longer blocks: geckoisgecko
This was confirmed on the forums that it was UA sniffing. Adding dependency back. If it renders fine now in a Camino build, feel free to resolve this bug as FIXED.
Blocks: geckoisgecko
Will someone who originally saw the bug please either explain with a screenshot what the original bug was, or confirm that it doesn't exist any more? It looks "normal" to me but as I never saw the original bug I'm not comfortable closing this one.
My Yahoo has changed significantly in the last couple of years. This bug is fixed.

However, do we have a mail.yahoo.com bug filed? They're sniffing incorrectly there...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: yahoo.com - Incorrect layout and search box (bad UA sniffing - doesn't handle camino) → my.yahoo.com - Incorrect layout and search box (bad UA sniffing - doesn't handle camino)
I don't know how to post screenshots in here, but I have created a comparison of My Yahoo in Camino 1.5 and Safari 2.0.4. The image is located here:

http://homepage.mac.com/andydobson/camino_and_safari/PhotoAlbum102.html
Resolution: FIXED → INCOMPLETE
I don't see anything like that at all. Here are screenshots of what I see:

Camino: http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1411/picture1vi1.png
Safari: http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4746/picture2gs7.png
Firefox: http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/2389/picture4iw1.png
Reopening. Yahoo is definitely sending different content to Camino as compared to Firefox.

By the way, you can post screenshots using the "Add an attachment" link.

cl
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INCOMPLETE → ---
It may have something to do with whether you've customised the My Yahoo page, too. I haven't, and the search field/menu is very different in Firefox vs. Camino. Spoofing Camino as Firefox makes them identical.

cl
Thanks for the quick response. 

I'm using the old version of the My Yahoo page. The screenshots that were attached by Samual Sidler look like the new "My Yahoo Beta" version. 

The only real difference between the two screenshots I posted is that I have Camino set to block web advertising so the banner ad doesn't appear across the top. 

Oh, there's that attachment link...
Not sure if this is related but the refresh edit delete boxes in the title bars of the My Yahoo! page float off the bar. Passing the mouse cursor over gets them to move back in place. This happen almost ever time I load the front page. Also the My Yahoo! pages layout scrambles fairly often. I can email a screen shot if needed.  
Oops just noticed this is for camino the bug Im referring to is in firefox. 
In Firefox no issue with https://my.yahoo.com/
In Camino, the browser is RIP.
Assignee: english-us → nobody
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago → 10 years ago
Component: English US → Desktop
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
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