90746 - jvc.com - Browser sniffer not quite good enough

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P2)

Description

[Keith Briscoe]

JVC's web page uses a very nice browser sniffing script which correctly
identifies Netscape 6, but fails to identify Mozilla.  Considering future
embedded/Linux deals will likely use Mozilla over Netscape, it'd be helpful if
the site considers Mozilla to be Netscape 6.

Script (http://www.jvc.com/includes/js/bwsrDetect.js) below:

var ns4 = (document.layers)? 1 : 0 ;
var ie = (document.all)? 1 : 0 ;
var usr = navigator.userAgent
var objns6 = (usr.indexOf('Netscape6')!=-1)? 1 : 0 ;
var ns6 = ((document.getElementById)&&(objns6))? 1 : 0 ;
var isMac = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac')!=-1) ;
var brsr = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")!=-1) ;

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

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

Comment 2

[Keith Briscoe]

Maybe it's time for another letter--this page is still broken.  Maybe we can
include a reference to this bug number and mention that we have an example of
correctly-working code here that they can use:

http://www.jvc.com/includes/js/bwsrDetect.js (corrected)
--------------------------------------------
var ns4 = (document.layers)? 1 : 0 ;
var ie = (document.all)? 1 : 0 ;
var usr = navigator.userAgent
var ns6 = ((document.getElementById)&&(!ie))? 1 : 0 ;
var isMac = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac')!=-1) ;
var brsr = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")!=-1) ;

With this code, any W3C DOM-compliant browser (including, but not limited to,
Mozilla) is considered the same as Netscape 6 for the purposes of their web site.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

well, they should support all DOM browsers, and we support the standards

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Mass reassign of all tech-evangelism us general bugs assigned to bc to 
doron except bc's P1 bugs. You may search for this mass reassign (it is 
305 bugs) by searching for the keyword 'greeneggsandham'

Comment 5

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

works perfect now.