305460 - willow.tv - They use non-standard Microsoft code in their HTML.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Alex Lowe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Their site uses non-standard Microsoft-based HTML code, even though everything
that they do can be done in a standards-compatible way. They use an ActiveX
function just to start Macromedia Flash (WTF???).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to willow.tv
2. Click FAQ at the top
3. Under "Before I purchase a package, I want to get an idea of the video
quality. How can I do that?", click the "Click here" link.
Actual Results:  
An alert box appears with "backgroundImage failed" in the box. I cannot play the
video.

Expected Results:  
Played the video when I clicked "Click here to play with Media Player 7.1".


The site is incompatible with anything but IE. They annoy me incredibly. :)

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

They state that only MSIE is supported. After reading their terms of use, I
wonder if they are worth it. You can try to contact them, but I doubt they will
be very responsive other than telling you to use MSIE. They even tell people to
turn off their firewall if it is Norton...

Comment 2

[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.