97974 - mooma.com Israel's largest music site blocks Netscape / Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Hebrew, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010831
BuildID:    2001083103

Mooma is Isreal's largest Music site. In fact, it is the only large music site
in Hebrew.
When entering the site (http://www.mooma.co.il) using Netscape/Mozilla, you get
a reedirection to http://www.mooma.com/netscape.html
which has a notice:
"To get the best service from the Mooma web site, use Internert Explorer brower"
(note- the site itself uses Windows media heavily to stream audio)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mozilla
2. Go to http://www.mooma.co.il


Actual Results:  Notice the redirect, and observe that the site is bloked

Expected Results:  I want in! :-)

As well as a large collection of streaming audio, this (fairly new) site
contains a large online Music Encyclopedia.

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

I am confimring that the problem does exist and so 
will change the status to NEW.
This site seems to be using document.all in some parts
and this will not work in Mozilla. 
I will contact them to find what exactly is causing them to
block all Netscape browsers. If Hebrew display is an issue,
I think they can allow Netscape 6.1 or later. 

Shoshannah, can you find a contact address for this web site?
I will send them a letter requesting their reasons for
blocking Netscape 6.1. Maybe we need to tell them that
Mozilla 0.93 and Netscape 6.1 and later now support
Hebrew.

Comment 2

[Shoshannah Forbes]

The contact Email address that is given in the site is:
[e-mail]
They also have a general phone number:
972-3-7676300
The site is owned by Keshet interactive.
BTW, they seem to be blocking IE6 as well...

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

OK. We will find out why they are blocking Mozilla/Netscape 6.1.
If they are blocking IE6, then they might be taking a cautious approach by 
first testing their sites and functions against the target browsers.
If everything works as intended, they might be planning to unblock
a browser which passed their tests. This is a cautious approach and the
one that a lot of responsible web sites take for a new browser.

Thanks, Shosh.

** Changing QA contact to Shosh for trial basis.

Comment 4

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Mooma's webmaster is Oshik Ernst
[e-mail]

Comment 5

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Well. mooma is closed for the forsiable future. I think we should close the 
bug then...

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Per Shoshanna's comment, the site is not functioning
for the foreseeable future. I will mark this as "invalid".

Comment 7

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

page looks back

Comment 8

[Shoshannah Forbes]

>page looks back

Hmm... I just went to the URL and got "host not found" error. strange

Comment 9

[timeless]

hrm, the site is up, the main page doesn't send me to the netscape page, but the
netscape page still exists.

Comment 10

[timeless]

hebrew evangelism

Comment 11

[Shoshannah Forbes]

the block has been removed with the site new opening, althugh they didn't bother
deleting the page.

marking fixed