84049 - yahoo.com - Yahoo! FinanceVision doesn't support Moz/N6

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P1)

Description

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Many of the articles on http://finance.yahoo.com are Yahoo Finance Vision
articles. If you click on an article Yahoo sniffs the version number and says
you must use 4.x or I.E.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

contacted 07/10/01 via [e-mail]

Comment 2

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

follow up with these sites by 0.9.5

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

*** Bug 102080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> 0.9.6, need to follow up on these asap

Comment 6

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

http://vision.yahoo.com/?id=1855493&aid=7199 givs the popup, reseting bug

Comment 7

[Blake Ross]

Bob, have you had a chance to follow up yet?  This is a very high profile 
site...

Comment 8

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

I visited yahoo finance vision with a nscp commercial build 2002 01 23 04/win2k,
with jre 1.4 rc0 and without windows media player installed. It rejected me
until I switched my ua string to nav4 (see
http://mozilla-evangelism.bclary.com/sidebars/). I was then able to use finance
vision to view videos, run the applet, etc. The only issue was that I could not
view archived videos since they are only available in windows media player format. 

I then installed windows media player 7.1 and revisited. The page now does not
work for me at all due to 

Error: document.appObs.setByProxyDSScriptCommandObserver is not a function
Source File: http://vision.yahoo.com/web/ns/media.html
Line: 6

Error: document.WMPlay.Open is not a function
Source File: http://vision.yahoo.com/web/ns/media.html
Line: 88

Obvious layer related calls not supported by Gecko. It does appear that yahoo
vision defaults to windows media player if it is installed and that it attempts
to script windows media player.

More tests are required to see if 094 branch builds with JRE 1.3 are able to
access finance vision without windows media player.

Comment 9

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

On attempting to connect to yahoo vision a second time using nscp commercial/jre
1.4 and with windows media player I was able to choose my player (real) and
connection type again however was unable to play any video. When attempting to
view any video, the player/connection alert window would appear again 

Error: alertwin is not defined
Source File:
http://vision.yahoo.com/web/ns/fv.html?.rand=1012234123582&yv_sym=&yv_p=&yv_cn=&url=&site=
Line: 178

Comment 10

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

jre 1.3.1 and the wm plugin files removed, nothign works, just js errors everywhere.

Comment 11

[Susie Wyshak]

reassigning to susiew. Yahoo says they'll be fixing it in a few months.

Comment 12

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> assigned

Comment 13

[Brant Gurganus]

*** Bug 139795 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 150718 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939405.html?tag=fd_top

-> susiew: wontfix?

Comment 16

[Kelly Hirano]

vision.yahoo.com now redirects to y! finance... agreed, maybe a wontfix?

Comment 17

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

resolving wontfix