I sent them an e-mail message, here it is Ever hear of Web Standards?
http://www.w3.org Locking customers out is not a good business practice, you would increase your revenue by using a more browser-indepent site, something that requires no more effort than to write for Internet Explorer only.. Why won't customers download or install Microsoft Internet Explorer? 1. Some will, others will simply put their foot down as I have and not buy anything from you until you let them in without insisting upon them getting something that they obviously did not want to begin with. 2. Not everyone uses the Windows platform, or are on Internet-enabled devices, or another web browser that happens to "float their boat" and therefore, could not satisfy your request to install Internet Explorer, and will simply seek out one of your competitors. 3. By opening your site to all, or at least mostly all Internet users, the added income would more than suffice for the trouble of site conversion. That having been said, it looks like you have a nice site, at least what I can view of it from Mozilla after getting through your browser sniffer, and I would consider using it for my needs if you did not lock me out. Thank you, Ryan Farmer Patrick Gallagher wrote: > A website (www.canadasportswear.com) is using this script to ban all > Netscape and Mozilla branded browsers from their site, or rather the > webdesigner they hired to do their web design did so. I've managed to > get into pages beyond the frontpage, and for the most part Mozilla > handles it perfectly (there are a couple "IE Only" features, but nothing > integral to the functionality or appearance of the site) - but I can't > figure out how to get into the site through the front door using Moz, > changing the UA string doesn't seem to work - is there anything else > that might do the trick? > > If anyone wants to pull an Evangelism trip, his phone number is on the > website. > > </script> > <csbrowser href="netscape.html" ns="0,0,0,0,0" ie="0,0,1,1,1"> > <script><!-- > var skipPage = true; bAgent = window.navigator.userAgent; bAppName = > window.navigator.appName; bMozIdx = bAgent.indexOf("Mozilla/"); > if ((bAppName.indexOf("Explorer") >= 0) && (bAgent.indexOf("Mozilla/4") > >= 0)) skipPage = false; > if ((bAppName.indexOf("Explorer") >= 0) && (bAgent.indexOf("Mozilla/5") > >= 0)) skipPage = false; > if ((bAppName.indexOf("Explorer") >= 0) && (bMozIdx >= 0) && > (parseInt(bAgent.substring(bMozIdx+8, bMozIdx+10)) >= 6)) skipPage = > false; > if (skipPage) { location = /*URL*/'netscape.html'; } > > //--></script> > > Patrick >
